Journal
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 983-987Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201409093
Keywords
continuous flow; flow techniques; Friedel-Crafts acylation; ibuprofen; separation techniques
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In a total residence time of three minutes, ibuprofen was assembled from its elementary building blocks with an average yield of above 90% for each step. A scale-up of this five-stage process (3 bond-forming steps, one work-up, and one in-line liquid-liquid separation) provided ibuprofen at a rate of 8.09 g h(-1) (equivalent to 70.8 kg y(-1)) using a system with an overall footprint of half the size of a standard laboratory fume hood. Aside from the high throughput, several other aspects of this synthesis expand the capabilities of continuous-flow processing, including a Friedel-Crafts acylation run under neat conditions and promoted by AlCl3, an exothermic in-line quench of high concentrations of precipitation-prone AlCl3, liquid-liquid separations run at or above 200 psi to provide solvent-free product, and the use of highly aggressive oxidants, such as iodine monochloride. The use of simple, inexpensive, and readily available reagents thus affords a practical synthesis of this important generic pharmaceutical.
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