good morning everyone ✌🏽🖖🙏🏻

did you know that many pharmaceuticals use chemical precursors derived from crude oil❓⁉️

now: "Scientists make pain killers from pine trees instead of crude oil".

"A team of scientists, from the University of Bath's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability found a way to create two common painkillers, paracetamol and ibuprofen, out of a compound found in pine trees, one which is also a waste product from the paper industry."

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-scientists-common-pain-killers-trees.html