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OpChem provides customized R&D projects to match customer requirements, including small-scale, pilot-scale, and commercial production. A full range of chemical services is thus available to meet the individual needs of our customers. We excel at making both existing and clinical drugs from the gram to kilogram levels, with a particular emphasis on R&D of anti-cancer and veterinary drugs, and pesticides.

OpChem has two R&D bases: one in Suzhou and one in Xi'an. Our R&D staff consist of: five PhD, 15 MSc and 10 BSc chemists from many prestigious institutions including Columbia University, Cornell University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Our R&D bases have advanced instruments including LC-MS, GC-MS, NMR, HPLC, GC,DSC, UV-Vis for product identification, impurity identification, in-process control and product testing.

We have expertise in: hydrogenation, pressurized hydrolysis, Friedel-Crafts reactions, use of butyl lithium, low temperature reactions, halogenation, esterification, aromatization, de-aromatization, etherification, Swern oxidation, cyclization, condensation, halogenation and many other reactions.