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Custom synthesis

However complex or challenging your custom synthesis project, we have the specialist expertise and labs to deliver

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Whether you’re seeking to create novel chemical building blocks, optimise synthesis processes or develop scalable production, we can help. Our experts have advanced expertise in a range of fields including nanotechnology, energy and sustainability, novel material and biomolecular synthesis.

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Our contract synthesis services include custom organic and inorganic synthesis, for applications such as:

Catalysis

Supramolecular chemistry

Industrial precursors

Water technologies

Separation processes

Chemical biology

Medicinal chemistry

Carbon capture and storage

Thin films and coatings

Therapeutics and diagnostics

Flow chemistry

Flow electrochemistry

Our custom chemical synthesis services 

Through CChES your company can access leading expertise and advanced custom synthesis facilities, such as our Material Innovation Lab, which offers unique rapid, high-throughput synthesis capabilities.

Custom organic and inorganic synthesis including novel molecules, electrochemical synthesis, petrochemical synthesis, total synthesis, isotope labelling, organometallic and catalyst.

Custom synthesis for biological chemistry, including gene synthesis services, custom DNA and oligo synthesis, and custom peptide synthesis for new developments in healthcare, the environment, bioenergy systems and bio-nanotechnology.

New synthetic methods including flow chemistry, new ‘reagentless’ methodologies using electrochemistry, thermolysis and photochemistry, and expertise in understanding reaction mechanisms.

Why work with CChES?

Access leading expertise at the cutting-edge of chemical synthesis, for innovation or problem-solving support

Advanced facilities such as our high-throughput synthesis and characterisation lab produce rapid, robust results

A trusted industry partner, we are experienced in delivering complex contract synthesis projects for our clients

A range of specialisms including nucleic acid chemistry, therapeutic oligonucleotide development, next generation diagnostics, enzyme catalysis, glycan chemistry, protein-protein interactions, post-translational modifications, lipidomics and biosynthesis of natural products

Our custom synthesis experts

Our custom synthesis specialists have a track record of research and industry collaboration in areas including sustainable synthesis, healthcare technologies including therapeutics and antimicrobial resistance, and the underpinning science of molecules and their reactivity.

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