Chemical Reaction Technologies Unit
THE UNIT IN 2015
The Chemical Reaction Technologies Unit provides ICIQ researchers with the latest technologies related to reaction performance: chemical reaction development, with special emphasis on reaction parallelization and high throughput synthesis, reaction scale up, in situ reaction monitoring and reactions under special conditions (high pressure, microflow, supercritical fluids, microwave…). The Unit is also in charge of special conditions labs: a clean room, a dark lab to handle photosensitive chemicals and two labs fully equipped to run reactions at high pressure. Moreover, the Unit also helps researchers in terms of complex reaction setups, specially those involving gases.
During 2015, requests for special reaction setups have significantly increased compared to the previous year. The most used instrumentation is the one related to the use of gases at high pressure conditions. The use of the dark lab and the clean room has also increased. The use of SPR16-AMTEC high pressure parallel reactor has decreased mainly due to the retirement of Prof. Van Leeuwen, his group was an intensive user of the equipment. Nevertheless, Prof. Kleij´s group has started using this instrument quite intensively as well.