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Our goal at Fluorous Technologies is to provide support along the entire research continuum, from initial curiosity in fluorous technology to hands-on technical support in the lab. Our approach to this goal continues to evolve, but below you will find a few concrete ways in which we are already trying to help you, dear reader, no matter at which stage in our interactions you find yourself. So regardless of whether your current priority is learning about, conveniently purchasing or effectively using fluorous technology, we are a business partner on which you can rely.
Cheers,
Phil
Philip E. Yeske
President & CEO
New Orleans American Chemical Society Meeting Wrap-up
It was a notable week at the ACS Meeting in New Orleans as Fluorous Technologies, Inc. founder Dennis Curran received this year's ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry. The award symposium was held in two half-day sessions and included various talks about fluorous catalysis, carbohydrate chemistry and microarraying. In addition, an upcoming special award issue of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry will recognize Prof. Curran's accomplishments.
There were also numerous presentations and posters that highlighted fluorous chemistry, including several from Prof. Nicola Pohl's group at Iowa State. Their use of fluorous tags to facilitate the synthesis, separation and immobilization of carbohydrates continues to garner a high degree of interest within the carbohydrate community. Another poster of note, presented by Stephen Rankin of the Knutson group at the Univesity of Kentucky, described their work using fluorocarbon/hydrocarbon mixtures to form bimodel mesoporous silica--a new and potentially valuable media by which to conduct fluorous separations. Overall, there were presentations or posters covering some aspect of fluorous chemistry given in seven separate divisions. That's a real testament to the power and generality of fluorous techniques.
New Fluorous Portal at Sigma-Aldrich.com
For your convenience, more than seventy (70) of our most popular FluoroFlash® products are also carried by Sigma-Aldrich. We've been working with Sigma-Aldrich to create a fluorous web portal to make it easy for you to find these products on their site. Bookmark this link or just type www.sigma-aldrich.com/fluorous and you will be redirected to the fluorous portal. There you will find all the FluoroFlash® products that Sigma-Aldrich carries, as well as links to application notes, presentations and literature references through the Fluorous Learning Center.
Whether you use a FluoroFlash® product purchased directly from Fluorous Technologies or from Sigma-Aldrich, we will be there to help you succeed. Sigma-Aldrich and Fluorous Technologies, Inc.--a winning combination!
LIterature Highlights from F-Blog: All Things Fluorous
Since the beginning of 2008, there have been several F-Blog posts covering publications of particular interest to the fluorous community. Each of the following publications takes advantage of the novel properties of fluorous tags. Together, they demonstrate the ability of the technology to span various disciplines.
The first was the use of fluorous modified polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to conduct a model Fluorous Solid Phase Extraction (FSPE) as reported by Horton et al. This paper is interesting due to the prevalent use of modified PDMS in the construction of microfluidic devices. Click here to read more about this paper on F-Blog.
Next was a paper that used fluorous tags in a fluorous mixture synthesis strategy to synthesize all the possible stereoisomers of cytostatin in order to prove the assigned stereochemistry. The researchers conclude that the use of fluorous tags greatly reduced the effort needed to synthesize all the stereoisomers. Click here to read more.
Finally, there was the Nimzyme paper from researchers at the Scripps Research Institute who used fluorous techniques to immobilize an enzyme substrate on a nano-structure initiated MS (NIMS) chip. They then detected and directly and directly characterized by MS the product of the enzymatic reaction. Unlike other fluorous microarray work that has detected protein binding, this work demonstrates that enzyme assays are also possible. For more details about this paper, click here.
Be sure to keep up with all of the posts on F-Blog for the latest reviews of the fluorous literature and, well, all things fluorous!
Fluorous Solutions
Do you have a separations or analysis problem that you think could be solved using fluorous techniques, but are unsure? Our scientists have helped many of our customers come up with specialized solutions to their problems. Whether you want to know how to specifically tag a compound or which scavenger best suits your reaction, we will do our best to help you unleash the power of fluorous. Please contact us and we'll help you devise a fluorous solution.
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