Reactions and Reagents
- Organometallic chemistry using various metals
- Methylation with dimethyl sulfate
- Oxidations with hydrogen peroxide
- Reductions with hydrides, hydrogen gas or hydrazine
- Chlorinations with thionyl chloride
- Nitrations
- Pressure reactions up to 25 bar with various gases
- Protecting chemistry with DiBoc etc.
- Handling of sulfur raw materials: dimethyl sulfate, various thiols and sulfides, thiourea, sulfonyl chlorides
- Off-gas treatment of sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and other sulfur derivatives
Equipment
- Distillation laboratory
- Pilot plant with several stainless steel and glass-lined reactors between 300 – 1,200 liters, isolation/drying with Hastelloy Nutsch and stainless-steel filters
- Production plant with a total reactor capacity of approximately 100 m³
- 9 multi-purpose lines with reactor sizes between 2.5m³ and 12 m³ (stainless steel, glass-lined and Hastelloy)
- Nutsch filter, filter dryer, inverted filter centrifuge, 2 Hastelloy centrifuges
- Paddle dryer, cone dryer and tray dryer
- Distillations: short path, thin film evaporator and fractionation
- Analytical laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art instruments, e.g., HPLC, GC, GC/MS, UV-VIS, IR, polarimeter, viscometer and DSC