On July 18th, Andreu Mas-Colell, conseller d’Economia i Coneixement, inaugurated the CELLEX-ICIQ High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) laboratory. This is the only HTE laboratory of this type in Europe. Two other similar laboratories are in the University of Princeton and University of Pennsylvania.
The HTE laboratory provides ICIQ researchers with the instrumentation and know-how to speed up run processes in the development of new drugs and catalysts. The facility offers the possibility to run and analyze a large number of reactions in a very short time, which accelerates the optimization and discovery of new processes. Moreover, the possibility of running many reactions in a short time also allows to follow unexplored ways and to study difficult processes with, a priori, little chance of success.
The laboratory is equipped with an NMR spectrometer (300 MHz), three chromatographs (a GC-MS, a UHPLC-MS and a supercritical CO2 chromatograph with diode array or MS detector), a glove box train, a parallel centrifugal evaporator, pressure reactors, tumble stirrers and well plates.
Andreu Mas-Colell, Carmen Vela, Secretary of State for R+D+I, and Xisco Caldentey, HTE lab manager.
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