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Inside Life Sciences News June 2010 |
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Severe time and cost pressures in research and development, corporate globalization and an increasing preference for outsourcing: you are all too familiar with these current trends in global pharmaceutical markets. BASF meets these challenges with proactive and coherent approaches to customer support, logistics and new business development. 
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| With its new N-methylpyrrolidone Life Science (NMP Life Science), BASF manufactures a NMP grade featuring a very low level of free amines in the range of 1 part per million (ppm), which is equivalent to 0.0001 percent. This new intermediate outperforms conventional NMP grades in this respect, which as a rule contain at least 10 times more amines.
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| BASF now also offers methanesulfonic acid for pharmaceutical applications in North America and Asia. This strong organic acid is highly suitable for manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients such as telmisartan and eprosartan, angiotensin II receptor antagonists.
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| Still unrivaled as Europe's only dedicated fine and specialty chemicals event, Chemspec Europe focusses on providing its attendees access and networking opportunities to suppliers from around the globe. 2010 will see Chemspec Europe return to Germany - to Messe Berlin, on June 9th and 10th.
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| BASF Inorganics is pleased to announce a partnership with Sigma-Aldrich to distribute lab quantity samples of the newly launched product PEMB (5-ethyl-2-methylpyridine- borane).
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Pharmaceutical R&D, recently described as a "broken engine" by Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter, is experiencing a major change as companies look increasingly outside their own research departments for future products.
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From June 15 – 16, 2010, the BASF Boron Conference takes place for the sixth time in Ludwigshafen, Germany. For this reason, we spoke with Michael Pcolinski, Vice President, Inorganic Chemicals North America & Global Business Management Inorganic Life Science Chemicals based in Evans City, USA.
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Benzophenone imine is a recent addition to BASF’s portfolio, which now offers another new protecting group of great interest. Benzophenone imine can also be used as a building block, for example for introducing the amine function into a molecule.
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| A good idea daily - the New Business Development team for life sciences in BASF’s Intermediates division certainly would not settle for that. The team evaluates far more than 500 ideas every year, most of them at a customer's request, some out of their own considerations.
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BASF has developed N,N-diethylaniline borane (DEANB) with 5 mol% SpiroCAT, a new reagent for selective reduction. The formulation of DEANB with 5 mol% SpiroCAT is a mild and selective system for the reduction of ketones, esters and amides at ambient temperature in the presence of other functional groups, thereby enabling the late-stage reduction of complex APIs.
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| Be it in the semiconductor industry, in the treatment of metal surfaces, or as a starting material for the production of agrochemical and pharmaceutical ingredients, Hydroxylamine Free Base (HAFB) is an exceptionally versatile building block for a broad variety of applications.
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Read our new overview regarding recent precious metal prices.
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New people in the Pharma team.
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| Pharma meetings and events around the globe.
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