Lake Como 2|4 October 2011 - CHIMICA Oggi/Chemistry Today

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ABSTRACT
Doing the reaction isn’t everything
David J. Ager
DSM Pharma Chemicals - USA
BIOGRAPHY
David J. Ager
David Ager received a B.Sc. from Imperial College, London, and a Ph.D. from the University
of Cambridge.
In 1977 he was awarded a Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship that allowed
him to collaborate with Professor Richard Cookson FRS at the University of Southampton.
In 1979 he joined the faculty of the University of Liverpool as a Senior Demonstrator. This was
followed by an assistant professor position at the University of Toledo in Ohio.
In 1986, he joined the NutraSweet Company’s Research and Development group as a
Monsanto Fellow. NSC Technologies came out of NutraSweet R&D.
In 1999, NSC was sold to Great Lakes Fine Chemicals; Dave was a Fellow with
GLFC, responsible for the development of new synthetic methodology.
He then left GLFC and has worked as a consultant on chiral and process
chemistry.
He joined DSM at the beginning of 2002 as the competence
manager for homogeneous catalysis and in January 2006, moved
into the role of Principal Scientist.
There are many examples of reactions performed in a fl ow regime, especially when hazardous or high-energy intermediates are
involved. In many cases, a batch method is used to isolate the desired product and this can be economical as it fi ts into an existing
plant. An alternative is to isolate the product in a continuous manner and this is the focus of this presentation. In particular the use
of centrifugal contact separators will be described. In addition to being a method to continuously separate immiscible liquids, the
equipment can also be used to perform reactions at the same time.
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