You have a complex chemical process that is no longer competitive? Countries with low salary levels are beginning to gain market share for cost reasons? Let acib solve your problems by discovering new and cost-efficient routes for chemo-enzymatic synthesis of your target compound(s).
Background
Many industrially relevant substances have been discovered several years ago and their production processes were state-of-the-art back then but are made obsolete by recent advances in biocatalysis. Regrettably, biocatalysts are sometimes applied in a way that they cannot reap all their benefits i.e., by just replacing one chemical reaction with its enzymatic counterpart. When instead the whole route is re-evaluated, biocatalysts can do so much more, allowing for novel, much shorter and more efficient processes towards target product.
Technology
acib is there for you to yield the powerful tool of biocatalysis, letting you benefit from our expertise and:
- New reactions going beyond the scope of traditional catalysis
- Reduced manufacturing costs by fewer processing and purification steps of combined chemo-enzymatic processes
- Higher quality by outstanding chemo-, regio-, stereo- and enantioselectivity of enzymes
- Supply chain security by using enzymes from microbial fermentation instead of specialty chemicals
- Environmental sustainability and safety by ambient temperature, water as (co-)solvent and less reactive/toxic reagents; enzymes are natural tools and biodegradable
Project Offer
Under protection of a CDA/NDA we provide you with strategies for chemo-enzymatic synthesis of your compound. We can provide the scouting (1-2 month) plus the wet-lab proof-of-concept (2-6 months)
Experts:
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kroutil, Prof. Dr. Bernd Nidetzky, Dr. Margit Winkler, Dr. Christoph WinklerAvailable for:
Joint Research Project, Contract Research, Horizon Europe Projects
