The Chemical Reaction Technologies Unit provides ICIQ researchers with technical support in chemical reaction developement, with special emphasis on reaction parallelization and high throughput synthesis, reaction scale-out, in situ reaction monitoring, high pressure reactions and reactions performed in microflow reactors.
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In the ambit of chemical parallelization, the Unit has equipment to cover all the unit operations involved in a chemical process: reaction, work-up, purification and final isolation of the product.
A chemical reaction can be scaled up, in a totally computer controlled reactor, from 0.6 to 6 L. This scale is optimal for preparing in-house starting materials and for technology transfer in cooperation projects.
In situ reaction monitoring can be performed either by heat flow calorimetry or by FTIR spectroscopy. These techniques are non intrusive and are very useful for kinetic and mechanistic studies.
Moreover the Unit provides ICIQ researchers with different technologies to perform reactions under singular conditions such as: a microwave reactor, photochemical reactor and a set of microflow reactions.