the programme

The two-day programme starts on 7th September at 1pm with Registration from 1pm and a buffet lunch until 1.45pm. It finishes on 9th September at 1pm. The programme has been designed as a whole to cover both Investigating Chemical Processes through Designed Experiments and Experiments involving Chemical Descriptors. It has been streamlined, compared with previous years, through the use of new software.

Investigating Chemical Processes Through Designed Experiments

Experimental Design is a structured method of gaining process understanding to deliver optimised, robust processes. We will look at how these Experimental Design tools are used both within academia and in industry.

For example, using these tools, pharmaceutical companies seek to offer medicines at lower costs to patients and at minimal impact on the environment. Most examples in the chemical literature do not address process improvement from economic or environmental standpoints. If the processes are run for too long, or at too high a temperature, using excessive reagents or solvent volumes, then the commercial reality is that this makes many processes uneconomical and uncompetitive. Control of impurities is key to providing safe medicines for the patient.

Experiments Involving Chemical Descriptors

Recent advances in the ability to generate data quickly through parallel experimentation has called upon the need for multivariate techniques. These methods allow data to be turned into decisions. Typical applications of this techniques are more efficient and effective approaches to solvent and reagent selection.

Perhaps less familiar to chemists is the use of these same tools to identify preferred communication styles. It may be just as important to you that you are able to effectively share your findings with your peers, supervisors and future employers!

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