Up-Scaling Synthesis Laboratory

Stainless steel or glass reactor systems

• Stainless steel reactor vessel volume 6 l
• Glass reactor vessel volume 10 l
• Operating temperature from -20 °C up to +150 °C
• Operating pressure up to 1.5 bar
• Inert syntheses under vacuum or inert gas (nitrogen N₂, argon Ar)
• Process parameter control system and automatic data acquisition

Pressure reactor

• Reaction vessel volume 2 l
• Operating temperature from -10 °C up to 350 °C
• Operating pressure up to 200 bar

Filtration units

• Nominal volume 4 l
• Fiter plates with 16 up to 250 µm pore size
• Operations under vacuum, normal pressure
• High pressure and/or inert gas

Purification and analytics

• Large-scale rotary evaporator
• Freeze drying systems
• Vacuum drying oven
• Preparative HPLC and Flash chromatography
• Gel permeation chromatography (GPC)
• Mass spectrometry (MS) MALDI-TOF-MS
• Absorption spectroscopy (e.g. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) and UV/VIS spectroscopy)
• Viscometry
• Zeta potential

Applications

• Syntheses of:
  • monomers and pre-polymers
  • active ingredients and prodrugs
  • polymers, coatings and adhesives, additives
  • dyes
  • biomaterials and biopolymer derivatives
  • hybrid polymers

• Custom synthesis