BINAP available in commercial quantities from Rhodia

Published: 14-May-2003

Rhodia's Phosphorus and Performance Derivatives (PPD) enterprise has made available commercial quantities of the well-established ligand, BINAP.


Rhodia's Phosphorus and Performance Derivatives (PPD) enterprise has made available commercial quantities of the well-established ligand, BINAP.

Highly versatile, BINAP is used for a range of applications including chiral reactions, such as asymmetric hydrogenation. Earlier this year Rhodia PPD announced it had acquired exclusive rights from Great Lakes Chemical Corporation to the Monsanto Phosphine coupling technology, allowing it to develop the processes for manufacture of various phosphine ligands, including the Nobel Prize winning BINAP.

Previously expensive to buy and difficult to manufacture, the availability of all three Isomers (R, S and Racemic) at exceptional purity levels, supplied in both kilo and tonnes will be an important addition to Rhodia's comprehensive phosphine range.'

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