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Safety first! Vapourtec system used to generate azides and diazoniums on 100 gram-scale
Date: 25 April 2024 | Category: News
The Vapourtec R-Series system was used by researchers at Novartis to safely scale-up the preparation of a preclinical candidate to over 100 g in a telescoped process requiring diazotization, azide formation and cyclisation, all of which are known to be hazardous if performed on larger scale.
Interview with Prof. Thomas Wirth on recent flow electrochemistry breakthrough
Date: 17 April 2024 | Category: News
Vapourtec CSO Dr. Manuel Nuño recently met with Prof. Thomas Wirth and it was the perfect occasion to ask him some questions about a recent high-profile publication in Science Advances entitled “Electric field–assisted anion-π catalysis on carbon nanotubes in electrochemical microfluidic devices”.
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R-Series software: Exciting new features in this month’s release
Date: 16 April 2024 | Categories: Headline News, News
In 2021, Vapourtec made the brave decision to replace its industry-leading Flow Commander flow chemistry software with a new modern user interface named R-Series software. This month we are excited to release R-Series software Stage 4. The new features include…
Continuous Flow Synthesis Enabling Reaction Discovery
Date: 16 April 2024 | Category: News
We highly recommend a recent publication by the Baumann group and Ley group, reviewing the role flow chemistry can have in new reaction discovery compared to batch chemistry. This review focuses specifically on four types of chemical processes – photochemistry, electrochemistry, high temperature reactions, and reactive intermediate reactions – where continuous flow has led to the discovery of many new reactions and reactivity patterns.
Landmark installation for E-Series system
Date: 11 April 2024 | Category: News
Broadening flow chemistry horizons over the past decade, Vapourtec’s E-Series flow chemistry system has reached the notable landmark of 300 installations around the globe.
Firmly established over the last ten years as the leading entry-level flow chemistry system, the E-Series has also been pivotal in many key research breakthroughs, appearing in over 250 peer-reviewed publications.
Game-changing SPPS technology at British Peptide Society symposium in honour of Dr Atherton
Date: 28 March 2024 | Category: News
Last week Dr Manuel Nuño and Dr Keren Abecassis attended a mini-symposium organised by the British Peptide Society and the Protein & Peptide Science Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
This peptide chemistry-focused event was a celebration of the work of Dr Eric Athe…
Vapourtec showcased latest innovations at Flow Chemistry Europe 2024
Date: 14 March 2024 | Category: News
Vapourtec Director Duncan Guthrie and CSO Dr. Manuel Nuño attended Flow Chemistry Europe (FCE) 2024 in Málaga, Spain last week. The 12th iteration of this annual must-attend flow chemistry event was a huge success.
We enjoyed networking with existing customers as well as mee…
A warm Vapourtec welcome for Keren!
Date: 12 March 2024 | Category: News
Keren Abecassis has recently joined the Vapourtec team after being appointed as Sales & Marketing Manager.
A PhD chemist with ten years of commercial experience, Keren has held global product management roles at Radleys and H.E.L Group and worked extensively with end users…
Expanding horizons with photochemical CSTR + LED module
Date: 02 February 2024 | Category: News
Vapourtec has introduced an LED module designed to enhance the capabilities of their recently launched CSTR (continuous stirred tank reactor) and increase the scope for new reactions.
The module allows the CSTR to undertake reagentless photochemical reactions and increases the s…
Chemistry teaching resource for flow chemistry goes online
Date: 27 January 2024 | Category: News
Vapourtec is celebrating the ten-year anniversary of its E-Series flow chemistry system by making a 100-page chemistry teaching resource freely available online.
Entitled ‘An Introduction to Flow Chemistry – A Practical Laboratory Course’, the PDF resource was compiled in 2014 by Professor Nicholas Leadbeater from the University of Connecticut and features nine different reactions designed to fit within a three-hour practical lab session.
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PS-30 pilot scale peptide synthesizer offers revolution in drug development cycle times
Date: 16 January 2024 | Categories: Headline News, News
Vapourtec has unveiled its Peptide-Pilot™, a unique, ‘game changing’ solid phase peptide synthesizer (SPPS) that reduces the drug development cycle time for significant quantities of target peptides from weeks to less than a day when compared to traditional, room temperature batch methods.
Photocatalysis challenges covered in Nature.com article
Date: 09 January 2024 | Category: News
Dr Manuel Nuño of Vapourtec has co-authored an article entitled “Improving reproducibility of photocatalytic reactions—how to facilitate broad application of new methods” on Nature.com.
The feature, prepared in collaboration with Santiago Cañellas of Toledo-based Janssen-C…
Flow Chemistry Automation at the 2023 Winter Process Chemistry Conference
Date: 12 December 2023 | Category: News
Vapourtec is pleased to attend the 9th Winter Process Chemistry Conference taking place on December 11-13 in Liverpool, UK.
The 3-day event gathers international chemists and scientists across all aspects of Process Development with presentations tailored towards both the chem…
Vapourtec showcases innovations at the 2023 Automated Synthesis Forum
Date: 28 November 2023 | Category: News
Vapourtec representatives Victoire and Sek Choong are excited to attend this year’s Automated Synthesis Forum (ASF) hosted at the Novartis Basel Campus in Basel, Switzerland on 27th & 28th November.
The annual ASF conference focuses on cutting-edge technologies pre- and …
Alfatech S.p.A to exhibit at the Italian flow chemistry symposium
Date: 16 November 2023 | Category: News
Vapourtec’s Italian distributors Alfatech S.p.A. are exhibiting at the Italian Flow Chemistry Symposium on 27th and 28th November at the Palazzo Greppi in Milan.
Alfatech S.p.A, has over 30 years’ experience of providing specialised laboratory equipment to pharmaceutical com…
Turning up the heat with SF-10+ lab pump
Date: 16 November 2023 | Categories: Headline News, News
The SF-10+ builds on the pump’s existing capabilities, already cited in many scientific breakthroughs since 2016, with enhanced temperature control and can be heated between ambient and 80 °C as well as allowing for the inlet and outlet tubes to be heated to the same temperatu…
New record for publications citing Vapourtec systems in 2023 Q3
Date: 06 November 2023 | Category: News
The impact of Vapourtec’s flow chemistry technologies continues to grow and grow with the third quarter of 2023 breaking records in terms of peer review publications citing Vapourtec systems.
A total of 42 citations within trusted scientific journals have been published in t…
Taking a stand for flowchem at Lab Innovations
Date: 13 October 2023 | Category: News
Vapourtec will be showcasing the very latest flow chemistry technologies at the forthcoming Lab Innovations exhibition (Nov 1-2, NEC Birmingham) including their variable bed flow reactor (VBFR) used in the rapidly growing sphere of peptide synthesis.
Joseph Poole and Ali Deuch…
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Delivering productive peptide synthesis in Continuous Flow
Date: 10 October 2023 | Categories: Headline News, News
Vapourtec’s Peptide-Scaleup™ flow chemistry configuration is targeted at peptide chemists for whom synthesis time is critical.
Substantially more productive and efficient than traditional, room temperature batch scale-up synthesisers
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Vapourtec CSTR cascade extends flowchem systems
Date: 04 October 2023 | Categories: Headline News, News
Vapourtec has recently launched a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR cascade) that is designed for continuous process synthesis and works in conjunction with their existing, industry-leading flow chemistry systems.
CFRT 2023 – A highly successful event
Date: 04 October 2023 | Category: News
Last Thursday evening Vapourtec wrapped up the 14th edition of Continuous Flow Reaction Technology in Dublin. It was a two-day event where experts in the field of flow technology met and shared their most recent work.
The conference attracted 150 scientists from all over the world from both academic and industrial backgrounds.
Vapourtec showcase E-Series at Flow Chemistry India
Date: 19 September 2023 | Category: News
Ben Showell, Field Service Engineer at Vapourtec, recently showcased the latest advancements in flow chemistry at Flow Chemistry India in Mumbai. Distinguished keynote speakers, including Timothy Noël, President of the Flow Chemistry Society, Paul Watts, Research Chair in Microf…
Summer 2023 Newsletter from Vapourtec
Date: 07 September 2023 | Category: News
The latest issue of our FullFlow newsletter, the flow chemistry newsletter from Vapourtec, was sent out to our newsletter subscribers on 7th September 2003.
Four times a year, you can get a quarterly newsletter from Vapourtec delivered right to your mailbox. Signing up means y…
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Major publication milestone for Vapourtec
Date: 07 September 2023 | Categories: Headline News, News
Vapourtec has recently passed the significant milestone of its technology being cited within 1,000 peer reviewed scientific publications…