Technology
Non-Precious Metal Catalysis (NPMC)

Cost-saving, Sustainable Alternatives for Coupling Reactions
The precious metals typically used as catalysts in pharmaceutical manufacturing — palladium, platinum, rhodium, and ruthenium — keep costs high and efficiencies low. Working in-house and in collaboration with industry and academic leaders, we have formed the NPMC Consortium to address these concerns. Working together we’ve developed processes and procedures that use non-precious metal catalysis (NPMC) to challenge cost, abundance, sustainability, and waste inefficiencies.
Asymchem NPMC Benefits
- Active research into less expensive catalysts or enzymes for catalysis
- Ni-catalyzed reductive coupling
- Extends to heterocycles and functionalized alkyl halides