Umicore Precious Metals Chemistry is a leading expert in the field of precious

metals based specialty chemicals, delivering innovative products and dedicated

services to clients around the world.

Umicore PMC's highly pure and active precious metals catalysts and chemicals are used in various industries. Besides our range of inorganic chemicals we have developed a wide range of organometallic precious metal catalysts and pre-cursors, which are used primarily for homogeneous catalysis applications.

Typical reactions which use these catalysts are:

• Hydrogenation
• Carbonylation
• Hydrosilylation
• Hydrofomylation
• C-X coupling (eg Heck, Suzuki, Stille)
• metathesis
• chiral catalysis reactions
• Ru dyes (new)

Our products can be supplied from gram to multi-kilo / bulk quantities. We have considerable expertise in rapid scale up of organometallic precious metal compounds. We are also able to customise catalysts to produce novel metal/ligand combinations for specific projects. We are able to undertake specific research and development projects in conjunction with our customers. Our Applied Technology team are always available to discuss catalyst selection, application, and optimisation, and would be pleased to discuss new requirements and catalysts with you. We operate a strict policy of confidentiality with our customers, which we support with appropriate agreements.

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