New Solvent, Cyrene, Takes on NMP
by Michael McCoy
Jun 12, 2019 10:10 AM ET
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Published by Chemical & Engineering News
A small Austrailian company called Circa Group and the lab services giant Merck KGaA have teamed up to launch a new solvent intended to replace two old but environmentally suspect standbys: N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) and dimethyl formamide (DMF).
*The life science business of Merck, KGaA, Darmstadt Germany operates as MilliporeSigma in the U.S. and Canada