Precious Metals Chemistry
Umicore Precious Metals Chemistry business unit provides its customers the benefits of decades of experience in organometallic chemistryand production of Precious Metal based chemicals and catalystsalong with state of the art Precious Metal separation and recovery technologies, enabling them to develop reliable and cost-effective production processes.
Dedicated to Life Sciences, Fine and Specialty Chemical Industries, we also serve customers in Petrochemical, Oxo-synthesis, Polymer, Silicone, Environmental, Electronic, Plating and Fuel Cells industries.
Our Precious Metal based Chemicals and Catalysts, whether they are Advanced Inorganic Chemicals or Organometallic Precursors and Catalysts are produced in our facilities worldwide in batch sizes from kg through 100 kg up to multi-tons. They have proven efficiency in many industrial scale catalytic and non-catalytic applications.
Our team of organometallic chemists can support you in utilising our products in your production processes and offering when required cost-effective metal separation and recovery services.
Striving to offer leading edge solutions to the Life Science industry, our Business Development team focuses on the 4 following technology platforms:
Chiralyst® – enantioselective catalysts:
Expertise in catalysis development, from screening to production; sourcing of most relevant chiral ligands; and manufacturing pure Metal precursors and ready-made Metal-Ligand complexes
Neolyst® CX – Cross-coupling catalysts:
Robust, highly active and versatile Pd-N-Heterocyclic Carbene catalysts for reactions such as amination, Heck, Suzuki-Miyaura, Kumada
Neolyst® M – Metathesis catalysts:
Stable and well performing 1st and 2nd generation catalysts, provided with customer oriented IP models
Ecolyst® – Metal separation & recovery technology:
From product purification to metal refining, innovative metal separation and recovery
Please contact our world wide team of experts at neolyst@umicore.com: we will be happy to start working with you.

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