Specialty Chemicals, Metals and Materials Department

Finding the right supplier for your chemical, metal or material needs can be a time-consuming and frustrating task. Alfa Aesar’s Specialty Chemicals, Metals and Materials Department specializes in producing and sourcing those hard-to-find products for applications from research to production. When you call us for a quotation, we’ll respond promptly, and our demanding service goals ensure that we will meet or beat quoted delivery times.

Backed by the global manufacturing network of Johnson Matthey, a world leader in advanced materials technology, Alfa Aesar offers immediate delivery of many of chemicals, metals and materials from our European distribution center.

Although our reputation has been built as a manufacturer and supplier of research chemicals and metals, Alfa Aesar is much, much more. Our areas of specialty include:

Synthetic Organic Products

Alfa Aesar’s combined resources bring you a broader range of unique building blocks and other novel compounds. More than 60 production chemists employ a variety of techniques in the development of new products, many of which are otherwise unavailable commercially.

Alfa Aesar’ production operations offer a single source for fine chemicals from research to pilot scale.

Our expert technical and commercial personnel in our Bulk and Speciality Sales Group can aid in your search for the ideal bulk, special or custom manufactured product. Please contact us for more information.

Investing in Excellence

Alfa Aesar has invested in a class-leading production site in the UK with a modern 100-fume hood laboratory facility and a sophisticated QC installation. Our involvement in a global research chemicals business gives our technical team an unrivalled breadth of expertise in organic chemistry, with practical experience of almost every organic reaction.

The combined technology database created from the merger of Alfa Aesar, Lancaster Synthesis and Avocado Organics makes us a world resource for effective problem-solving in complex organic reactions.

Everything in Bulk

Alfa Aesar has a Specialised Development Group who have expertise in the disciplines of process design and scale-up. Our DSC and RCI reaction calorimetry allow us to offer a rapid response when screening potential process routes.

Production Capability

Our production labs have the capacity to produce 10-100 kilogram scale lots and the flexibility and expertise to utilize a full range of chemistry. The breadth of our reaction capability includes:

Acylation Alkylation Amidation Amination Arbuzov reaction Chiral catalysts Chlorosulfonylation Condensation Dehydration Diazonium chemistry Diels-Alder reaction Esterification Friedel-Crafts reaction

Grignard chemistry Halogenation Heterocyclic synthesis Hydrogenation Lithiation Nitration Oxidation Quaternization Reduction Suzuki coupling Vilsmeier reaction Wadsworth-Emmons reaction Wittig reaction . ..and more

 
To contact the Alfa Aesar Specialty Chemicals, Metals and Materials Department with your next inquiry, call 0800 801812 or +44 (0)1524 850506, fax +44 (0)1524 850608 or communicate with us online.

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