Umicore and Solvias Enter Next Level of Collaboration

Catalyst manufacturing company Umicore and technology provider Solvias have entered a long-term cooperation allowing quid pro quo access to each company's respective asymmetric catalysis technologies. The terms of this cooperation allow both Umicore and Solvias to offer a customer friendly IP access, both for the ligands and for the metal-ligand complexes. Clients now have the choice of utilizing either in-situ ligand technologies or employing ready-to-use chiral metal-ligand complexes in their processes. Besides simplifying their process, by which Solvias and Umicore cooperate, the fast availability of industrial quantities of chiral complexes based on a wide array of above mentioned ligand families allows end users to optimize process economics due to reduced catalyst consumption.