Practical Process Research & Development 1st Edition

Very GOOD!

Imagine you have many "old-timers" giving out practical tips each from years of experience. That is not often happening. This book does exactly that.It addresses process R&D in pharmaceutical and / or fine chemicals industry, taking one from laboratory bench to pilot or production scale. The differences and difficulties in scale-up were clearly demonstrated and the solutions provided. It educates and helps a R&D chemist or process chemist to ANTICIPATE, AVOID and OVERCOME the potential problems in process development and scale-up, at the START or EARLY stage of the project. Supported by many examples, the best practices and solutions are presented at the detailed technical level: routes, reagents, solvents, water, running and optimizing reactions, workup, chiral synthesis, etc.The author highlighted a lot of key advice in "boxes" and allows a quick one-hour read of the best points.

I read this book cover to cover, come back to it many times. No other process chemistry book teaches better than this one. Highly recommended.

If you ever wonder how to run your reaction on a three tons scale, this is one of the books to go for. On the top it is also real fun to read.