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Date: 27 June 2024 | Category: News

Once again, ACHEMA didn’t disappoint. This year, 2,842 exhibitors from 56 countries presented their products and services to 106,001 participants from 141 countries and we were proud to be among them. ACHEMA continues to be one of the largest events in the industry – at a mas…

Date: 24 June 2024 | Category: News

Two key publications released recently within the same week demonstrate the breadth and impact of recent innovative work within the field of flow chemistry.

The two papers demonstrate improvements within photochemistry and peptide synthesis utilising Vapourtec’s recently unv…

Date: 06 June 2024 | Category: News

The growing role and potential of machine learning in chemistry, and particularly within flow chemistry, is being shown by Vapourtec and Accelerated Materials at the upcoming ACHEMA process industry exhibition (Frankfurt, June 10-14).

Date: 05 June 2024 | Category: News

Although the use of bioreactions within mainstream organic chemistry is established, translation into flow chemistry has been slower. However, in recent years there have been significant advances in the field of flow biocatalysis. In particular, enzyme immobilisation has allowed the development of column or ‘packed-bed’ reactors.

Our mini-review highlights a range of recently published enzyme-mediated transformations, where using flow mode often achieves higher yields, faster reaction rates, and better selectivity, as well as increased retention of enzyme activity when compared to the batch process.

Date: 30 April 2024 | Category: News

Our Distributor Manager Ali Deuchars had a worthwhile trip to Mumbai, India last week, attending ChemExpo India 2024 and visiting potential and existing customers in the area.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…