Organic Electronics

Peakdale Molecular offers its customers a wide range of integrated chemistry services for many applications in a number of industrial and academic sectors. These services are founded on the company’s core strengths of extensive and innovative chemistry; a reputation for delivering quality products on time and a passion for organic synthesis.

Peakdale is currently developing a comprehensive offering for ORGANIC ELECTRONICS, with a particular focus on the emerging Printable Electronics sector. Our aim is to form new relationships in this sector, by the provision of products and services, and to assist clients in accelerating their product development by leveraging our world class synthetic chemistry and problem solving skills.

 

Amongst its existing customers Peakdale Molecular is renowned for:

  • Successful execution of challenging syntheses

  • Developing innovative synthetic routes to novel compounds

  • Developing safe and efficient scale-up methods for target compounds

  • Application of parallel synthesis methodology for expedited synthesis of new compounds

  • Generation and enhancement of client IP


Peakdale also has recent experience in:

  • Synthesis and characterization of OSC candidate compounds

  • Purification of OSC materials to high specifications using state-of-the-art technology

  • Process development and production of bulk OSC materials

 

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL

 

"Peakdale Molecular has been collaborating in the scale up of organic semiconductor molecules with us for almost a year now. During that time, the organisation has demonstrated the ability to rapidly deliver a number of technically demanding semiconductor molecules having chemical purity requirements exceeding 99.9%."

Dr. Beverley Brown, Technical Project Manager, Northern Way

 

CAPABILITIES AND EXPERTISE

Our state-of-the-art facilities are fully equipped for organic synthesis and include a number of specialised capabilities, which are supported by experienced staff.

 

SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:

  • 10 Research laboratories operating from mg to kg scale

  • Scale-up laboratory reactors – up to 50 litres with low temperature (-78° C) capability

  • Parallel synthesis reactors – up to 250ml

  • Pressure/hydrogenation reactors – up to 7.8 litres

  • Microwave synthesis – including scale up to 1 litre

  • Ozonolysis apparatus

 

PURIFICATION CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:

  • Automated flash chromatography – multiple instruments, up to kg scale

  • 4 x Preparative HPLC – mass/UV directed

 

ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES INCLUDE:

  • Multi nuclear NMR (300 MHz/400 MHz)

  • Multiple UPLCMS, LCMS, LC instruments

  • GPC

  • GC – including residual solvents by headspace analysis

 

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY

Peakdale is also able to offer specialised in silico chemistry support to Organic Electronics projects. Capabilities include:

  • Calculation of band gap energy

  • Prediction of molecular properties relevant to crystal packing

  • Calculation of molecular HO MO and LUMO distributions

 

ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

Every chemistry project at Peakdale is carried out by talented and highly skilled individuals the majority of whom are qualified to PhD level or higher. Each team is led by an experienced manager who acts as a clear point of contact for technical discussion between Peakdale and the customers' scientists. This proven structure has been designed to ensure effective communication and project management, and is reflected in the high levels of customer satisfaction for which we are renowned.