Annual Scientific Report 2017

THE UNIT IN 2017

The Chemical Reaction Technologies Unit provides ICIQ researchers with the latest technologies related to reaction setup and running: chemical reaction development (screening and scale up) and reactions under special conditions (high pressure, microflow, supercritical fluids, microwave, etc.). 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 with complex reaction setups, specially those involving gases.

In 2017 the tendency of the last few years was confirmed: the most used instrumentation in the Unit is that related to the use of gases at high pressure conditions. Nevertheless, the Unit is in charge of 37 different devices that have to be constantly up and running.

In 2017, the use of the 24 position autoclave HEL-24 increased by 64%. The support given in terms of special reaction setups has also increased.

As a special setup in 2017, we should highlight the modification of a 25ml autoclave to be adapted in a flow NMR system.