kilomentor

In one year time, I think it is likely that I will be retiring from my present position at ratiopharm. For one thing, I will be 65 years old, and for another, ratiopharm, by that time, will have been sold off to some other organization. Most likely ratiopharm will be part of either Teva, Pfizer or Actavis. Anyway, those, Reuters reports are the front-running contenders. Since the ratiopharm organization did not itself produce any active pharmaceutical ingredients but sourced everything outside, the organization didn’t mind me writing a blog whose purpose was to mentor process development chemists anywhere in the world. I do not suppose these new people will feel the same way.

I am still in good health and cannot imagine doing anything else as enjoyable as chemistry. The action to-day is in the developing world, so I wouldn’t mind getting back into process development /research management / mentoring there with a vigorous team of young scientists determined to efficiently deliver significant projects. My wife, who is Chinese, favors China which clearly moving the fastest. As a Canadian with British roots, I may be inclined somewhat more towards India, where I have visited and appreciated what I saw. Of course there are other potential destinations as well. Any suggestions from out there in cyberspace?

Regards,

Dr. Clarke Slemon

kilomentor@sympatico.ca

• 
• Top Chemical Blogs
• Start Your Blog
• Chemical Forum
• Periodic Table
• Chemical News
• Unit Converters
• pH Calculator
• Balance Chemical Equation
• Calculate Molecular Weight

• Main
• Archives
• Albums
• Links

• Continuous Chemical Flow Reactors that Scale so Well are not New
• Using the Bisulfite Adduct for Purification at Scale: Practical Purity and Purging of Impurities by the Process Steps
• The Potential Use of Acetic Acid and Acetic Anhydride for performing Solvent Switches during Work-Ups
• A Question about Genotoxic Impurities
• Improving the Purity of Product from a Good-Enough Process
• The Problem of Oiling Out in Chemical Process Development
• Christmas and New Years Greetings
• Selective Silyl Group Protection: A Possible Preparation for Scalable Extractive Separations using Acetonitrile and Hexane Phases
• Friedel Craft Work Up of Aluminum Chloride catalyzed Reaction At Scale
• Removal of Hydroxyl Impurities from a Solid Product at Scale
• Separating Sulphur-containing from Sulphur-free Compounds both in the Lab and At Scale
• The Relationship between the Risk of Catastrophic Failure and the Size of the Scale Up Steps in Chemical Process Development
• The Advantages of Transfer Hydrogenation for Chemical Process Scale Up
• Distillation with Reduced Pressure using Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere to Create Enhanced Vacuum
• Reactions on Immobilized Enzymes can Telescope Process Steps, Eliminate Isolations and Reduce Costs at All Stages of Pharmaceutical Development

• General [134]

• RSS 0.90
• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0
• Atom