Chiral technology

Acoris and c-LEcta to develop synthetic routes for chiral compounds – 11-Aug-2009

Acoris Research, a subsidiary of Hikal, and c-LEcta, a German industrial biotech company, are to collaborate on developing synthetic routes for chiral compounds. The partnership combines the expertise of Acoris in process development and small-scale manufacturing with the biocatalysis technologies of c-LEcta.

Umicore and Solvias enter catalysis agreement – 29-Apr-2009

Catalyst manufacturing company Umicore of Belgium and Swiss technology provider Solvias have entered a long-term cooperation that will allow access to each company’s asymmetric catalysis technologies. Through this collaboration, chiral ligands and chiral metal complexes will be made available at industrial scale.

Chiral Technologies adds columns for high speed enantiomer separation – 23-Apr-2009

Chiral Technologies Europe, a leader in chiral chromatography products and services, has commercialised five new products.

CML and Novacta to collaborate on biocatalysis development – 5-Mar-2009

Cambridge Major Laboratories (CML), a global service-based chemistry outsourcing partner to the pharma and biotech industries, and Novacta Biosystems of Welwyn Garden City, UK are to collaborate on combining their respective expertise in process development, custom synthesis and biocatalysis.

Chiral Technologies acquires ChromTech – 7-Jan-2009

Chiral Technologies Europe (CTE), a subsidiary of Daicel Chemical Industries and the provider of Daicel chromatography products and services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, has acquired ChromTech, based in Congleton, Cheshire.

Nature’s helping hand in chiral separation – 7-Jun-2009

Scientists studying marine bacteria have discovered an easy way of segregating right- and left-handed microbes – a discovery that could lead to a new way of isolating chirals. Susan Birks reports

Celtic Catalysts opens UK pilot scale facility – 7-Jun-2009

Chirality can be induced by irradiation – 7-Jun-2009

Chiral centres in molecules – 10-Nov-2008

Dr Sarah Houlton outlines some of the methods that companies are using today to introduce chiral centres into molecules

White biotechnology for greener chemistry – 7-May-2008

Professor Athanassios Giannis, medicinal chemist and head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University of Leipzig, describes how (2R,3S)-isocitric acid, a forgotten member of the chiral pool, has been made accessible in kilogram amounts for organic syntheses