The Flow Chemistry Unit includes a pilot plant and laboratory equipment for carrying out flow chemistry reactions aimed at the development and industrial scale-up of fine chemistry processes. It carries out research and technology transfer activities for companies in the pharmaceutical and fine chemistry sectors. It has a team of professors and researchers with solid experience in the industrial environment.
Equipment and technologies
Application of new manufacturing technologies in fine chemistry, transforming and optimising batch or discontinuous production systems into continuous production systems with more efficient, stable, safer, faster and cleaner reactions.
- Two Syrris modular reactors: one for laboratory scale and one for process scale-up (kilolab). They operate from microlitre/minute to half a litre/minute. Reaction monitoring and control is performed by process analysis techniques (PAT).
- Fine chemical reaction calorimeter for processes operating with a reaction volume between 1 and 2L, at temperatures between -20°C and 200°C, and pressure between 1 and 60 bar.
Equipment and technologies
- TITAN Continuous Flow Chemistry Modular Reactor (Syrris)
- ASIA Continuous Flow Chemistry Modular Micro-Reactor (Syrris)
- FTIR spectrophotometer (Mettler Toledo)
- Raman spectrophotometer (Raman)
- Ultraviolet Analyser (Ocean Optics)
- RC1 reaction calorimeter (Mettler Toledo)
Research Groups
GQF – Pharmaceutical Chemistry Group
The GQF group research focuses on two main areas: 1) The Pharmaceutical Chemistry Unit (new drugs)2) The Continuous Chemical Processes Unit
CRISOL – Chemical Reactions for Innovative Solutions
CRISOL is a powerful team capable of offering innovative chemical tools that make it real solutions to the challenges of Molecular Science, a discipline that is at the heart of key activities for Society, such as Medicinal and Process Chemistry, or Materials Science.