7th International Conference of the Flow Chemistry Society (Cambridge, UK, February 7–8, 2017)

Introduction

The 7th Flow Chemistry Europe will be held in Cambridge, UK on 7 and 8 February 2017, the conference will bring together like minded chemists from industrial, commercial and academic backgrounds. The Flow Chemistry Society is dedicated to the integration of flow chemistry into everyday practice, by delivering the latest knowledge and making it available for the entire chemistry community. The congress will provide excellent networking opportunities to meet the people behind the research and industrial applications. The organizer’s expectations are that the diversity of attendees and science will promote a unique and rewarding exchange of ideas.

Topics and theme

This year’s conference will cover improved time-to-market, all kinds of synthetic chemistry dedicated flow will be covered here. The FDA is encouraging the development of emerging manufacturing technology in order to improve manufacturing, consequently improving product quality and availability throughout its lifecycle. Accordingly, the Emerging Technology Team has been formed within FDA’s CDER. End-to-end continuous-flow production for the pharmaceutical industry has been stimulated by the MIT/Novartis collaboration and is now on the cusp of becoming a prime flow chemistry research topic which may change the pharmaceutical landscape.

Future chemical production has moved toward the compartmentalized bio-assembly lines of nature’s cells as there is a currently a surplus of cheap green energy. On the other hand, chemical processes become ever more energy-efficient. The so-called electrification of chemistry is thus reaching a business case that makes use of the smallest units – electrons. Nature has photons as small energy units for making large amounts of biomass and the merger of microfluidics and photo chemistry provides an outstanding match. This might change entire process schemes – Einstein would surely have approved!