Ibuprofen

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Ibuprofen is the alpha-aryl propionic acid every NSAID class wants you to know. Industrially it's the BHC three-step route from isobutylbenzene: Friedel-Crafts acetylation, hydrogenation of the ketone, then catalytic carbonylation to swap the OH for the carboxylic acid. Try walking it back: which bond is the easiest to cut on the way out?

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Pick the bond you want to cut from the strip below the structure.

Cell id: ibuprofen

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Use the bond strip below the structure to pick the bond you want to cut. Each chip shows the atom indices and the element pair so you can read them with a screen reader.

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