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Cheap, sustainable routes to platform chemicals such as terephthalic acid, p-cymene, p-methylacetophenone and p-toluic acid have been developed.
About
I am a postdoctoral researcher who recently moved from University of Bath to University of Birmingham. While carrying out my PhD at Bath, we developed a biorefinery model comprising a series or transformations allowing us to turn biorenewable terpenes (including industrial waste streams such as crude sulfate turpentine) into useful, commodity chemicals. These included solvents such as p-cymene, monomers such as terephthalic acid and even drugs such as paracetamol and ibuprofen.
Key Benefits
We want our biorefinery technology to be adopted by industrial partners and developed into commercially viable routes to pass on the enviornmental benefits or using bio-derived platform molecules to consumers.
Applications
Our biorefinery approach has far reaching applications in polymer synthesis, fine chemical industries and medicinal chemistry.