Strategically located in Rabale and Ankleshwar, India, our R&D centers are dedicated to advancing agrochemical process development, optimization, and seamless scale-up. We leverage cutting-edge technologies like continuous flow chemistry and catalytic asymmetric synthesis to accelerate route scouting, enhance yields, and deliver impactful solutions for our clients.
- Number: Four dedicated synthesis labs.
- Fume hood capacity: 48 fume hoods ensuring safe and controlled experimental conditions.
- Key equipment & facilities:
- Rotary evaporators (Rotavapors)
- Combi Flash Chromatography Systems (Combi flashes)
- Preparative High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Preparative HPLC)
- Precise Dosing Pumps
- Parallel Synthesizers for efficient reaction screening
- Laboratory Centrifuges
- Photochemical Reactors for light-sensitive reactions
- And more, supporting diverse synthetic methodologies.
- Purpose: Generate process safety information useful for hazard identification & risk assessment for a chemical process.
- Key equipment & facilities:
- Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) for screening thermal hazards
- Accelerating Rate Calorimeter (ARC) to know safe and unsafe conditions of handling of thermally active chemicals.
- Reaction Calorimeter (RC) for understanding heat of reaction and desired level of process control requirement.
- Automated Jacketed Reactors for identifying standard operating conditions useful in designing process control
- Distillation Columns for fractionation of volatile components
- VLE Apparatus to determine VLE, useful in designing of distillation column
- Number: Two dedicated Kilo Labs (Herbicide & Non-Herbicide).
- Automation & Control: SCADA operated and automated systems with integrated data loggers for precise process control and data acquisition.
- Key equipment & facilities:
- Reactors in various sizes: 30L, 50L, and 100L capacity to accommodate different scale-up stages
- Packed Distillation Columns for efficient purification at larger scales
- Agitated Nutsche Filter Dryers (ANFDs) in Glass, Stainless Steel (SS), and Hastelloy/Carbon steel (H/C) for diverse material compatibility
- Centrifuge for solid-liquid separation
- Vacuum tray dryer
- Short Path Distillation Unit (SPDU)
- 20L Rotary Evaporator for solvent recovery at kilo scale
- Specialization: Dedicated to high-pressure and fluorination chemistry.
- High-Pressure reactor suite: 6 high-pressure reactors constructed with Stainless Steel (SS) and Hastelloy/Carbon steel (H/C) for material compatibility and safety.
- Capability for High-Pressure Hydrogenation.
- Dedicated AHF workstations: 2 dedicated workstations with specialized safety features for reactions involving Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride (AHF).
- High-Throughput screening: High-pressure parallel synthesizer (Poly-block) for rapid catalyst and reaction condition optimization.
- Control systems: PLC operated for precise control and enhanced safety in high-pressure and hazardous reactions.
- Purpose: Development of cost-effective processes through flow chemistry.
- Flow chemistry reactor portfolio (Current plan):
- Corning Silicon Carbide – G1 Reactor
- Vapourtech – R4 series reactor and photo reactor
- ACR-ATR-AM (Automated Continuous Reactor – Advanced Technology Reactor – Automated Modular) technology
- Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR)
- Static Mixers for efficient mixing in continuous flow
- Membrane Separation technology for continuous separation and purification
- Purpose: Central analytical services for quality control, research support and data generation.
- Key equipment & facilities:
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Gas Chromatography (GC) Systems
- Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry-HeadSpace (GCMS-HS)
- Evaporative Light Scattering Detector (ELSD), Refractive Index (RI), and Fluorescence Detectors for HPLC
- Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLCs) for high-resolution and rapid analysis
- UV-Vis Spectrophotometer for spectroscopic analysis
- Infrared (IR) Spectroscope for molecular vibrational analysis
- Ion Chromatography for ionic species analysis
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectrometer for detailed structural determination
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), and Ion Chromatography (IC) for elemental analysis
- Preparative High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (Preparative HPLC) for purification of analytical standards and small quantities of compounds.