Fluorous Technologies
closedFluorous-based products for life science synthesis and separation.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
|---|---|---|---|
| investor | €0.0 | round | |
$3.0m | Series A | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
Fluorous Technologies Inc. (FTI) is a chemical technology company founded in June 2000 by Professor Dennis P. Curran of the University of Pittsburgh. The company focuses on developing and commercializing fluorous products and technologies for the life sciences market, particularly in drug discovery and development.
The core of FTI's business is fluorous chemistry, which utilizes highly fluorinated compounds to simplify complex chemical processes. This technology involves attaching 'fluorous tags' to molecules, which allows for easier separation and purification from reaction mixtures using techniques like fluorous solid-phase extraction (F-SPE). The unique properties of fluorous compounds—being both hydrophobic and lipophobic—enable them to be selectively separated using a fluorous phase, which is immiscible with typical organic or aqueous solvents. This simplifies synthesis, purification, and immobilization challenges, allowing pharmaceutical makers to create drugs more easily and effectively remove impurities.
FTI serves clients in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries by providing products such as fluorous reagents, separation media like FluoroFlash® Silica Gel, and fluorous tags for tagging diverse organic molecules. The business model includes selling these products, offering custom synthesis services, solution-based consulting, and intellectual property licensing. The company also engages in research and development to expand fluorous applications into fields like chemical biology, proteomics, and metabolomics. FTI's technology has been applied to the synthesis of peptides, oligosaccharides, and for creating microarrays.
Keywords: fluorous chemistry, chemical separation, drug discovery, life sciences, purification technologies, fluorous tags, solid-phase extraction, synthesis reagents, FluoroFlash, proteomics, peptide synthesis, oligosaccharide synthesis, chemical biology, process chemistry, pharmaceutical development, high-throughput synthesis, catalyst recovery, green chemistry, biomolecule separation, combinatorial chemistry