Chiral SPE: Revolutionary New Product Enables Chemists to Do the Previously Impossible; Now Chemists Can Get Chiral Enrichment with the Speed of SPE.SAN FRANCISCO -- Evolved Nanomaterial Sciences (ENS), a Cambridge-based company that uses patented nanotechnology to revolutionize the chiral chi·ral adj. Of or relating to the structural characteristic of a molecule that makes it impossible to superimpose it on its mirror image. chi·ral drug development process, announced today the release of ENS Chiral Solid Phase Extraction Solid-phase extraction (SPE) is a separation process that is used to extract compounds (called analytes) from a mixture of impurities. Analytical laboratories use solid phase extraction to concentrate and purify samples for analysis. (SPE SPE - Software Practice and Experience ) cartridges that will allow chemists to enrich in minutes what currently takes hours using traditional methods. Initially, the Chiral SPE will be available in 1, 3, 6 mL cartridges and wellplates. "With ENS Chiral SPE, chemists can now do the previously impossible - enrich enantiomeric mixtures in minutes without costly apparatus or lengthy method development times. It is as easy as...dissolve and extract," said ENS CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Robert Pucciariello. "Chiral SPE is a truly revolutionary product, with the potential to open up new horizons and speed up critical processes for chemists in a variety of industries." Certain pharmaceutically import molecules are made up of mirror-image molecules called enantiomers enantiomers (i·nanˑ·tē·  ·merz),n. that have to be separated from each other. ENS Chiral SPE extracts one enantiomer enantiomer /en·an·tio·mer/ (en-an´te-o?mer) one of a pair of compounds having a mirror image relationship. while allowing the second to flow through, by utilizing a patented nanotechnology to provide a shape-based solution to a shape-based problem. Thus, ENS Chiral SPE is effective with a broad range of chiral compounds, allows standalone chiral sample preparation or enrichment under a wide range of conditions. Importantly, the technology scales from research to manufacture. ENS' Chiral SPE and the patented nanotechnology behind it - as well as the new ENS Analytical NP Chiral Column -- is being exhibited at American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has over 160,000 members at all degree-levels and in 232nd Fall Exposition at the San Francisco Moscone Center this week. About Evolved Nanomaterial Sciences (ENS) Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, ENS utilizes patented nanotechnology to enable previously unattainable molecular separations, offering unprecedented selectivity -- dramatically simplifying and speeding up the drug discovery and scale-up process. ENS' web site is www.ensnano.com. |
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