Anton Paar has released an application report on the use of mircowave reactors in speeding drug discovery processes.
The research to defeat diseases such as malaria, Alzheimer’s and dengue fever as well as tumours, bacteria and fungi requires the use of continuous testing of compounds reactions and their synthesis.
Microwave reactors can help to significantly increase the efficiency of drug discovery processes, providing a fast way for the synthesis of potential new drug candidates.
For ultimate drug production in industrial scale (tons of material), huge plants are used instead of microwave reactors.
The valued potential of microwave reactors lies rather in speeding up R&D using scales starting from several microliters up to the litre range, producing approximately one kilogram of product per day.
Ultimately, the use of microwave reactors (which dramatically reduce reaction times) can save an incredible amount of time. And when it comes to research in drug discovery, time not only equals money, time can also save lives.
