Iron-based process promises greener, cheaper and safer drug and perfume production

Thursday, November 28, 2013 - 14:00 in Physics & Chemistry

University of Toronto researchers have developed a series of techniques to create a variety of very active iron-based catalysts necessary to produce the alcohols and amines used in the drug and perfume industry. The new synthetic methods promise to be safer and more economical and environmentally friendly than traditional industrial processes.

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