Teflon subproducts recycled into valuable pharmaceuticals
Nevertheless, ICIQ researchers led by Prof. Vladimir Grushin saw in fluoroform a opportunity, a seam of cheap fluorinated compounds. Taking advantage of a product that is usually wasted, chemists developed a method to obtain organic compounds modified with fluorine atoms. These compounds can be used to prepare all sort of added-value products from drugs -like popular antidepressant Prozac and several prostate cancer treatments- to agrochemicals and new materials.
Patent Offices from the US and the EU granted ICIQ the exclusive rights over this new synthesis method. Currently, ICIQ is looking for allies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries to licence and exploit this new and original waste-valorisation technology.
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