Process Research and Development

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Our Scientists and Process Engineers have vast experience in developing novel, safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly routes for the synthesis of complex molecules.
Our capabilities include route scouting, fit-for-purpose process development, process safety evaluation, analytical method development and validation, stability studies and scale-up of drug substances for toxicity assessment and clinical studies. The scientific team is well versed with spike/purge studies, impurity identification, in silico analysis to assess Potential Genotoxic Impurities (PGIs) in drug substances. Eurofins CDMO India can also support clients in developing Salt Forms, Co-Crystals and Solvates to enhance Stability/Solubility, polymorph screening and QbD based process development for late phase compounds. The chemistry services are offered in both Fee-For-Service (FFS) and Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) basis.

  • Development team consists of skilled and well-trained process scientists, analytical chemists and chemical engineers to follow a regulatory-driven, phase-appropriate process development strategy to support various stages of Chemistry, Manufacturing, & Controls (CMC) services.
  • Fully functional synthesis laboratories equipped with sophisticated instruments, kilo-lab and modern pilot-plant for rapid scale of drug substances for Preclinical/Tox Studies.
  • Well-equipped, flexible & adaptive manufacturing suits for advanced intermediates and NCEs/APIs.
  • QP-audited cGMP plant and clean-rooms for manufacturing of drug substances for clinical and commercial use.
Route Scouting and Process Development
  • Designing of synthetic routes based on prior art and combined wisdom of scientists.
  • Selection and Screening of routes based on ease of availability of raw materials, safety, economics and robustness.
  • Phase appropriate process development and optimization
  • Development of scalable processes using systematic methodologies such as Design of Experiments (DoE)/Quality by Design (QbD)
  • Process optimization to identify critical process parameters (CPP) and to understand Proven acceptable Range (PAR) and Normal Acceptable Range (NOR)
  • Impurity isolation, identification, characterization, and synthesis
Salt and Polymorph Screening
  • Well-equipped crystallization lab to generate solubility curve and understand the Meta Stable Zone Width (MSZW)
  • Crystallization Studies to understand the Polymorphism and Stable form
  • Experience in developing salt forms, Co-Crystals and solvates to enhance stability/solubility
Expertise on scales

Eurofins CDMO India has excellent expertise in developing and scaling up processes involving below reagents

  • Cyanation using NaCN, KCN, and CuCN
  • Carbonylation using CO (Carbon Monoxide)
  • Grignard Reactions
  • Reduction by using NaBH4/ LiAlH4
  • Friedel-Craft’s reaction
  • Chlorination (using SOCl2, POCl3, HCl, Cl2)
  • Bromination (using bromine/HBr in acetic acid)
  • Fluorination (using electrophilic and nucleophilic fluorinating agents)
  • High pressure hydrogenation reactions (using Pd/C, Pt/C, and Raney Ni up to 15 bar)
  • High temperature reactions up to 200 ⁰C
  • Nitration
  • Sulfonation using SO3H
  • Alkylation and Acylation
  • N-BuLi, sec-BuLi, and Dimethyl zinc
  • Amination
  • Condensation
  • Oxidation
  • Suzuki and Heck coupling
  • Diazotization
  • Azidation
  • Aminations (Reductive / Chiral)
  • Cryogenic reactions
  • Chiral resolutions