State-Of-The-Art Laboratories for Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Our newly refurbished technology laboratories host excellent facilities for the EU funded LabFact programme, with state-of-the-art equipment for flow chemistry and mechanochemistry.

Below: The Interreg lab facilities, with Vapourtec R series flow reactor fitted with a heated coil reactor (left), Teledyne ISCO purification system (centre) and Retsch MM400 mixer mill for mechanochemistry (right).

Our recently refurbished synthetic laboratories are outfitted for modern synthetic organic chemistry and drug discovery, with a dedicated suite of automated CEM and Biotage microwave synthesizers, Biotage Isolera column purification systems, mass-directed LC purification, bespoke microwave flow reactor technology and automated Liberty Blue^TM microwave peptide synthesizer. Analytical facilities support our synthetic work, with three high-field NMR spectrometers, two liquid state spectrometers (400 and 500 MHz) and a 600 MHz spectrometer for more detailed analyses, as well as a dedicated team of support staff, nine state-of-the-art, analytical mass spectrometers including triple quadrupoles, ion trap, double focusing systems , high resolution Fourier transformer, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer and a TOF unit allowing analysis of small and large molecules. We gratefully acknowledge the ongoing support of the R M Phillips Trust for outfitting our synthetic laboratories so that our research teams enjoy a wonderful research environment and to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for funding LabFact under the lnterreg V Programme.

Left to right. Top: Suite of CEM Explorers; CEM Voyager; Vapourtec R series flow reactor with UV-150 photochemical flow unit; Biotage Isolera purification system. Middle:10 mL microwave reactor; 80 mL microwave reactor; CEM Discover. Bottom: Lab bench; the Sussex LabFact team.

We gratefully acknowledge the following agencies for supporting our work:

We are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for funding LabFact under the lnterreg V Programme. For more information on this programme and its activities please visit the LabFact website.