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September 2024 - EFMC-ISMC - Rome
Synple will be present to exhibit at the EFMC in Rome this year. Stop by at our booth to find out the most recent developments.
Find out more about the ECMC here
November 2023 - Synple Space now searchable on BioSolveIT's InfiniSee
BioSolveIT and Synple worked together to make Synple's chemical space searchable. Using BioSolveIT's InfiniSee everyone can now search Synple trillion sized space in the matter of minutes using a standard computer.
The space file is available on request. Please contact us
September 2023 - EFMC-ASMC - Zagreb
Synple will be present to exhibit at the EFMC in Zagreb this year.
Find out more about the ECMC here
May 2023 - New peer reviewed publication from Synple (PROTACs)
Yet another one of our publications was just accepted in RSC Digital Discovery. Here we discuss the quick automated synthesis of a small PRTOAC library using the Synple platform.
Read the full article here.
April 2023 - New peer reviewed publication on Synple's Suzuki method
Our new peer-reviewed paper on the Suzuki capsules and method has been accepted and published in Organic letters. Here we discuss in detail the development work, how this application works and show the scope of the automated capsule based Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling. Thank you to the team for their work in writing this piece.
Read the full article here.
October 2022 - Publication using the Synple Chem Platform
Our collaborator at ETH just published their exciting results in Chemical Science waiting now for peer revision. They were using the Synple platform to quickly and reliably make a library of compounds in a fully automated way. The time benefits are also clearly shown. Congratulations to Angus for this great piece.
Read the full article here.
September 2022 - EFMC-ISMC - Nice
Find more information here
October 2021 - Synple selected as winner of the i4 challenge
A big thank you to the jury and the Basel Area team for their time and support!
Find out more on the i4 challenge here
April 2021 - Publication of Synple Chem's Technology in Chemical Science
March 2020 - TOP 100 startups that equip the labs of tomorrow
Read the full report here
February 2020 - Swiss Economic Award for young companies
Find more information here
December 2020 - Synple Chem 2020 roundup video
November 2020 - Publication of Synple Chem's Technology in Chimia
September 2020 - Partnership Charles River and Synple Chem
With this collaborative approach you can benefit from both Synple's technology and Charles River's extensive expertise!
August 2020 - RSC Emerging Technologies Competition
February 2020 - Roadshow
If you currently can't receive any guests just join our webinars or ask us for a videocall.
January 2020 - Automated Parallel Synthesis
December 2019 - Race of chemist vs. Synple 1
November 2019 - Automated Synthesis Forum (Glasgow) 2019
For more information read more here: Automated Synthesis Forum 2019
September 2019 - EU - SME Instrument Phase I
September 2019 - 20th SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
Right after the EFMC we are heading over to the UK to show our technology at the SCI/RSC Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. So if you didn't get the chance in Athens, we hope to see you in Cambridge!
For more information read more here: SCI/RSC Med. Chem. Symposium
September 2019 - EFMC ASMC - Athens
We are delighted to show our technology this year again at the EFMC in Athens. We look forward to meeting you at our stand.
For more information read more here: EFMC ASMC
June 2019 - 2nd RSC Anglo-Nordic Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
We will be showing our technology at the 2nd RSC Anglo-Nordic Medicinal Chemsitry Symposium in Snekkersten, Denmark.
We invite you to find out more about the instrument at our stand. Please stop by!
More information: here
May 2019 - 30th Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Eastern England
We will be displaying our new poster at the 30th Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry in Eastern England in Hatfield, UK.
We are happy to present our technology to you. Please stop by!
More information: here
April 2019 - Automation: Chemistry shoots for the Moon
Our technology was mentioned in a recent Technology Feature in Nature. It is exiting to see the current drive and the innovations in this field.
To read the article click here: Nature Technology Feature
March 2019 - Publication available on ChemRxiv
Our first publication about the technology together with the Bode group at ETH Zurich is now available as Pre-Print on ChemRxiv
For more information please click here: An Integrated Console for Capsule-Based, Fully Automated Organic Synthesis
February 2019 - InnoBooster
We are delighted and very proud to be the recipients of InnoBooster funding! This will support the development of a brand new reaction class for our technology.
For more information about InnoBooster click here: Gebert Rüf Stiftung Innobooster
November 2018 - Swiss Innovation Forum
We were happy to join QUO at their booth at the Swiss Innovation Forum in Basel this year with our synthesizer. It was inspiring seeing so many new technologies and ideas at the conference.
For more information read more here: https://www.swiss-innovation.com/
October 2018 - New reaction class available
Our latest application enables cartridge-based reductive amination reactions (more information here) using almost any combination of aldehydes and ketones with primary or secondary amines.
October 2018 - UKASF - UK Automated Synthesis Forum
Synple Chem were honoured to be invited to speak at the UK Automated Synthesis Forum 2018, held at the AstraZeneca Macclesfield site in October. Our CEO, Benedikt Wanner, presented the technology and all its benefits and we enjoyed many fruitful discussions afterwards.
For more information read more here: UKASF
September 2018 - EFMC ISMC
September 2018 marked our first exhibition and showcasing of the technology at the EFMC-ISMC in Ljubliana, Slovenia. It was a great meeting and we were delighted at the level of interest in our technology. Please contact us for more details on our Capsule Chemistry at the Touch of a Button!
For more information read more here: EFMC ISMC
March 2018 - Winner of Science4Life Competition
Synple Chem has been named as one the 10 winners in the Science4life Venture Cup (concept phase)! We are highly delighted to have been recognised in this prestigious competition. Science4Life is one of the oldest and most important Startup Competitions in Germany with support from industry and politics.
For more information read more here: https://www.science4life.de/blogentry/konzeptpraemierung-2018-diese-konzepte-haben-ueberzeugt/
January 2018 - CTI Grant
Synple Chem is delighted to announce that it has received a CTI grant from the Swiss government.
The grant, from the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), will support a collaboration with the group of Professor Jeffrey Bode at ETH-Zürich.
The 18 month project, funded by the CTI grant, will allow us to develop new capsule-based machines and applications for organic synthesis.
For this collaboration the Bode Group at ETH Zürich is looking to fill a postdoc position for 18 month to work on this project. The requirements include experience in organic synthesis; advantageous is experience in flow chemistry. If you are interested please send applications to bode@org.chem.ethz.ch and info@synplechem.com .October 2017 - CPhI
We are very happy to be there with Senn Chemicals and Christof Senn Laboratories.
Frankfurt a. Main - Germany
24.10.2017 – 26.10.2017
Booth 111F45 (Senn Chemicals)
More information about the CPhi you can find here: https://www.cphi.com/
September 2017 - Top 100 Startup Award
Read more here: http://www.startup.ch/top100
August 2017 - ETH Industry Day
March 2017 - Spark Award 2017
Read more here: https://www.ethz.ch/en/industry-and-society/techoffer/spark-award/2017.html
Dezember 2016 - Venture Kick: Stage 1
Read more here: http://www.ifj.ch/Meet-the-four-Venture-Kick-winners-of-stage-1