Design
Established expertiseRetrosynthetic route design
Compare plausible synthetic routes using chemical feasibility, step economy, safety, supply, waste and translation constraints.
Capabilities
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The group’s capabilities connect molecular and route design, process development, reaction engineering, flow chemistry, automation and analytics. Technology is selected around the chemistry and the decision that the work must support.
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Capability directory
Scientific and technical capabilities
DesignProcessEngineeringAutomation
Design
Established expertiseOrganic and heterocyclic synthesis
Develop practical routes to heterocyclic, functional and medicinally relevant molecular architectures.
Process
Established expertiseReaction optimisation and profiling
Identify the variables controlling conversion, selectivity, robustness and impurity formation.
Process
Established expertiseTelescoping and sequence integration
Connect reaction and work-up operations to reduce handling, isolations, time and material losses.
Engineering
Established expertiseBatch-to-flow translation
Assess whether continuous processing resolves a genuine limitation in mixing, heat transfer, residence time, pressure or inventory.
Engineering
Established expertiseGas–liquid and multiphase processing
Control interfacial contact, gas delivery and reaction inventory for challenging multiphase transformations.
Engineering
Established expertiseOn-demand reactive-intermediate generation
Generate unstable, toxic or energetic intermediates in controlled quantities and consume them without creating significant standing inventory.
Engineering
Future redevelopment interestPhotochemical processing
Use controlled irradiation, short optical paths and residence-time definition to investigate photochemical transformations.
Engineering
Collaboration opportunityBespoke reactor and apparatus development
Design apparatus around the transport, containment, sampling or processing needs of a defined chemical problem.
Automation
Established expertiseAutomated sampling
Collect timed or condition-dependent samples consistently while reducing repetitive manual intervention.
Automation
Future redevelopment interestInline and online analysis
Connect appropriate analytical measurements to experiments so that chemistry and process behaviour can be assessed in context.
Automation
Seeking collaborationAutomated experimental orchestration
Coordinate experiments, process conditions, sampling and data capture around a clearly defined scientific decision.
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Route to delivery
Capabilities work as a connected system
A project may draw on several capabilities, but each addition must have a clear purpose.
Define the molecular objective
Clarify the target, route constraints and evidence required.
Understand the chemistry
Establish mechanism, selectivity, kinetics, hazards and impurities.
Select the process environment
Choose batch, flow, light, pressure, automation or a combined workflow based on need.
Build transferable evidence
Produce robust conditions, analytical understanding and a credible path to delivery.
Capability status
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Each capability is classified as established expertise, future redevelopment interest or a collaboration opportunity. Practical availability is confirmed only after the scientific scope, facilities, people and funding route are understood.
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