Dr John Studley, Scientific Director at Scientific Update recently spoke to Dr Boris Gorin, Eurofins Alphora, Toronto, Canada ahead of his presentation at the 2019 ‘Organic Process Research & Development’ Conference in Toronto, Canada. Boris will talk about “Eribulin Mesylate, a Journey from Synthetic Route Discovery to Scale-Up Manufacture”. John Studley (JS): Can you tell us a bit

Chemical Industries Association (CIA) Awards Celebration Thursday 13th June 2019 St George’s Hall, Liverpool Scientific Update is proud to sponsor the ‘Young Ambassador’ Award at the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) Awards Celebration in Liverpool, 13th June. This award will be presented to an outstanding young person demonstrating communication skills and leadership associated with the chemical

Following a communication from a chemist at Merck / MSD I can now tell you about 2 more cocrystal APIs on the market – Lexapro (escitalopram oxalate) and Steglatro (ertugliflozin pyroglutamic acid cocrystal.  Lexapro is actually a cocrystal of the salt escitalopram oxalate with oxalic acid, similar in some ways to the Praziquantel intermediate naproxen

The keynote speaker at our recent ‘Polymorphism and Crystallisation’ Conference in Boston was Dr Susan M. Reutzel-Edens from Eli Lilly, whose name will very familiar to anyone working in the solid form / crystallisation and she gave what one delegate described as “the best talk I have ever heard”. Now I can’t entirely agree with