Boots Pure Drug Company

Short, W.F. and Hobday, G.l U.S. Patent 2,464,203 March 15, 1949 assigned to Boots Pure Drug Company Limited, England... 

Nicholson, J.S. and Adams, S.S. U.S. Patent 3,385,886 May 28,1968 assigned to Boots Pure Drug Company Limited, Engiand... 

The original reported synthesis of ibuprofen (13.87) was patented in the late 1960s by the Boots Pure Drug Company in England.27 The route is shown in Scheme 13.15. Side products are shown... 

Boots Pure Drug Company Limited, Nottingham, England... 

After the War, Micklethwait worked briefly in the research laboratory of Boots Pure Drug Company and then returned to Swanley Horticultural College, where she taught until 1921, being Principal for her last year there. From then until 1927, she compiled the Index for the second edition of Thorpe s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, the series co-edited by her friend, Whiteley. She died on 25 March 1950, aged 83 years. 

Nicholson, J.S. and Adams, S.S. U.S. Patent 3,228,831 January 11, 1966 assigned to Boots Pure Drug Company Limited, England Nicholson, J.S. and Adams, S.S. U.S. Patent 3,385,886 May 28,1968 assigned to Boots Pure Drug Company Limited, England... 

In the 1960s, in a search for even more effective and less irritating analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, the Boots Pure Drug Company in England studied compounds related in structure to salicylic acid. They discovered an even more potent compound, which they named ibuprofen, and soon thereafter, Syntex Corporation in the United States developed... 

The Chemotherapy of Amoebiasis 8, 11 (1965) Dr. G. WooLFE Head of the Chemotherapy Group of the Research Department at Boots Pure Drug Company Ltd., Nottingham, England... 

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