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New Lab Items

26th April 2021 We have been working on a variety of compounds in the Labs over the last few weeks. They are designed to help your hit to lead research by increasing the diversity of substitution patterns on arenes and pyridines.                  OR47897   2-BROMO-5-CHLORO-4-IODOPYRIDINE   CAS: 1061357-88-7     […]

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Protease Quench, EDTA-free protease inhibitor cocktail tablets

12th April 2021 Description Protease Quench, EDTA-free tablets are specifically designed to protect isolated proteins by inhibition of serine proteases, cysteine proteases and aminopeptidases during extractions from animal and plant tissues or cells, yeast and bacteria. In order to maintain stability and the function of metal-dependant proteins, these tablets do not contain EDTA. Protease Quench, […]

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Venturing into Chemical Space: Trifluoromethyl-Aromatic Building Blocks

3rd March 2021 Our Labs have been busy working on new structures with a CF3 or CF2H group to increase the range of available building blocks for research or medicinal chemistry projects. Why not give us a call for a compound that is not yet available – we might already working on it! Below are […]

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Chromogenic substrates

11th December 2020   Apollo is thrilled to announce new distribution cooperation with Seramun Diagnostica GmBH, to expand our scope of products to our worldwide customers. Seramun Diagnostica GmBH strives on meeting the special requirements, ensuring the highest-level precision, keeping development times short and maintaining continual availability of quality-controlled products to its customers, following standardized […]

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A little gift from Apollo

4th December 2020 Seasonal Savings   Throughout December we’ll be offering a selection of discounts on our 6,000 life science products including Covid inhibitors, Antibiotics & Detergents, Substrates and Biological Buffers. All offers will be available until the 31st of December. Head to our store to view our offers!          

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Going with the flow

20th November 2020 Recent compounds synthesised under continuous flow conditions at Apollo Labs   Picture 1. Vapourtec R-series flow reactor, fitted with a photochemical reactor at Apollo Labs. Benzylic bromides are important building blocks in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries to synthesise benzylamides, benzylamines, benzyl sulfonmaides and N-benzyl heterocyclic compounds. To increase our range of […]

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New COVID19 inhibitors now in stock

2nd November 2020 SARS-CoV-2 Viral Mechanisms – How does the virus cause COVID-19? The global pandemic caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus in 2020 has created a critical demand for novel antiviral treatments, diagnostic methods and vaccines against the virus. Research into how it attacks the immune system and causes the disease COVID-19 that has […]

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An oldie but a goodie – Sulphonyl Chlorides

26th October 2020   Sulphonyl chlorides are one of the most frequently requested compounds as they are important intermediates in the synthesis of API’s. Because of that we have been working on scaling up one of our sulphonyl chlorides synthesis in the labs this month. Takes a while to get the all the glassware set […]

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Trials and trifluoromethylations

23rd September 2020   Establishing new in-house methods to increase the range of available catalogue compounds is one of our key objectives in the Apollo Labs. We have recently worked on the selective mono-trifluoromethylation of highly volatile 1,2-diketones. Similar compounds have been made via trifluoromethylations using Ruppert’s reagent  in neat conditions. Scheme 1: The initial […]

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Improve RNA detection with AMPLIFYME products

4th September 2020 Get the most reliable and specific results from your RNA samples using versions of AMPLIFYME Probe One-Step RT-qPCR Mix for fast and sensitive RNA detection in a single tube.   AMPLIFYME PROBE ONE-STEP NO-ROX RT-QPCR MIX BIBL0030 The AMPLIFYME Probe One-Step No-ROX RT-qPCR Mix – created for reproducible and efficient first-strand cDNA […]

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Product Focus – Novel Phenazines

3rd September 2020   Produced naturally by a range of bacteria and commonly synthesised via the Wohl-Aue reaction, phenazines are a class of nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds of wide interest. They have shown potential in biotechnological roles based on their ability to shuffle electrons and have also displayed antibiotic, antitumor and anti-parasitic activity.   Appl Microbiol […]

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Apollo Labs – Pyridines

24th August 2020   Our Labs are working on new pyridine series at the moment. Some tough nuts to crack! But we’ve had some success and the first new compounds have hit our store and are available from stock now.            PC50022  2-Methoxy-4-(trifluoromethyl)nicotinic acid      PC50183  5-Bromo-3-nitro-2-(trifluoromethyl)pyridine     PC50184  […]

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