Sustainable Syntheses of Paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Biorenewable β-pinene

Joshua D. Tibbetts; Marc Hutchby; William B. Cunningham; Robert S.L. Chapman; Gabriele Kociok-Köhn; Matthew G. Davidson; Steven D. Bull

doi:10.1002/cssc.202300670

Sustainable Syntheses of Paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Biorenewable β-pinene

Joshua D. Tibbetts, Marc Hutchby, William B. Cunningham, Robert S.L. Chapman, Gabriele Kociok-Köhn, Matthew G. Davidson, Steven D. Bull

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Abstract

Scalable processes have been developed to convert β-pinene into 4-isopropenylcyclohexanone, which is then used as a feedstock for the divergent synthesis of sustainable versions of the common painkillers, paracetamol and ibuprofen. Both synthetic routes use Pd⁰ catalysed reactions to aromatize the cyclohexenyl rings of key intermediates to produce the benzenoid ring systems of both drugs. The potential of using bioderived 4-hydroxyacetophenone as a drop-in feedstock replacement to produce sustainable aromatic products is also discussed within a terpene biorefinery context.

Original language	English
Article number	e202300670
Journal	ChemSusChem
Volume	16
Issue number	21
Early online date	28 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202300670
Publication status	Published - 8 Nov 2023

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Funding Information:
We would like to thank EPSRC for funding this study through “Terpene‐based Manufacturing for Sustainable Chemical Feedstocks” EP/K014889 and the Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies (EP/L016354/1)

Keywords

biomass
biorefinery
ibuprofen
paracetamol
terpenes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
General Materials Science
General Energy

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