Focus on Consultancy

Scientific Update LLP provides a wide range of consultancy services, both business and scientific, to the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, and its consultants have acted as expert witness in patent litigation.

The team has substantial breadth and depth of experience and knowledge in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals and related fields, such as polymorphism and other solid form issues, especially in the field of organic process research and development with the Consultants sitting on the scientific advisory boards of a number of companies.

Scientific Update Consultancy also offers project management services for emerging pharmaceutical companies, effectively acting as their process chemistry department! In addition, advice relating to the strategic management of drug development programmes is offered.

Expert Witness Services

As a small totally independant CMC consultancy, we are not constrained by parent companies or any associations.

Whether you organisation requires due diligence to support your licensing activities, is involved in a dispute or you would like a confidential consultation, we can help in any matter relating to organic and pharmaceutical chemisty.

Our consultants have been involved as expert witnesses for a number of legal trials in Europe and the USA in cases involving process chemistry, crystallisation and polymorphism and related issues.

For an informal but confidential discussion about how we might help your organisation, please call us on 01435 873062 or email: sciup@scientificupdate.co.uk.

Expertise includes :

• Organic chemistry

• Process R&D, process chemistry

• Innovative design of safe and economic synthetic routes / synthetic route selection

• Chemical and process development

• Scale up of batch/semibatch processes to kilogram and multikilogram scale

• Optimisation of chemical reactions and processes

• Green chemical approaches to manufacture

News flash

Organic Process Research & Development
8 - 10 January 2007, San Diego, CA, USA

Early Bird closes 30 October 2006 Last chance to SAVE £200!

Event Feedback

Organic Process Research & Development
17 - 19 July 2006, Vancouver, Canada

This conference was attended by over 162 delegates from the global community. There were 16 superb presentations from leading experts.

This event was sponsored by Dowpharma, Fluens Synthesis and Remspec Corporation.

"What I love about OPRD is that the speakers are given enough time to really get into details. Great format. "

"This was a well organised meeting with an excellent selection of topics, speakers and supporting material."

Don't miss hearing and networking with the key international people in organic process chemistry at our next event - OPRD, San Diego, USA in January 2007!

If you were unable to attend, why not consider purchasing the complete conference proceedings from this event with slides from each presentation (a key future resource!). Contact Karen Thurley for futher information.

Topical Tips

Process Chemistry snippets with hints, tools and methodologies, and extracts from literature of interest to organic process R & D chemists and engineers.

One-pot Preparation of aryl fluorides from anilines under non-aqueous conditions.

Selective deprotection of N-heteroaromatic carbamates under basic conditions.

If you have a useful, novel or new methodolgy, which you would like to share with our extensive global community of organic chemists, please send us your snippet! We will publish this on our web site and it will feature in future newsletters (sent to over 13,000 readers!).