Researchers apply an ecological process to get ibruprofen from oil
Date: 11.9.2009
The Compuestos de Coordinación y Organometálicos group of the University of Huelva is designing ecological **catalysts** to get important products such as adhesives, textiles and products with pharmacological, antibiotic or insecticide properties - from **hydrocarbons**, that is, organic molecules derived from oil production.
The process of obtaining these products proposed by the Huelva-based experts has many advantages. On the one hand, you can get products with a great deal of cheap molecules, such as hydrocarbons. Also, the process does not generate pollutant subproducts and allows to reuse catalysts, that is, the metallic complexes that accelerate chemical reactions, as they are based on clean compounds.
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