CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. INTRODUCES MICROFLOW CAPILLARY COLUMNS FOR RAPID SCREENING

CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a leading global provider of chiral chromatography columns and a wholly owned subsidiary of Daicel Chemical Industries, Ltd., of Japan, announced today the availability of new Microflow Capillary chiral columns to greatly increase the speed of screening and analysis of compounds, while reducing sample and mobile phase consumption.

The all-new Microflow Capillary columns meet the demanding requirements of high throughput drug discovery and development laboratories using capillary liquid chromatography. The columns are stainless steel, 0.3 mm x 150 mm, packed with 5 micron Daicel stationary phases.

“With the Microflow Capillary column, we are enabling researchers to have the chiral columns they need for the variety of instruments they use for separations that are fast, clean and reduce sample cost and solvent waste,” said David Ellis, Vice President and General Manager, Laboratory Products of CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES. “Originally developed to speed method development, these columns also offer the economic and environmental benefits of lower sample and mobile phase consumption.”

CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES will also introduce at Pittcon 2006, a new line of columns for supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), based on the successful Daicel polysaccharide phases. The wider range of column sizes and phases for SFC enables researchers to scale from analytical to preparative separations.

In addition to supplying chiral chromatography columns and bulk chiral stationary phases, CHIRAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., operates an outsourcing center for separation of chiral compounds from the gram to 50 kg scale at its technical center in West Chester, PA. This state-of-the-art facility utilizes a wide range of chromatography equipment, including SMB systems (also known as multi-column chromatography [MCC]), supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) equipment, and traditional single column preparative HPLC systems.