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Ciba Honors New Synthetic Technique

November 20, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 47


Credit: Ciba Specialty Chemicals

Ciba Specialty Chemicals' R&D Award 2006 went to a safer, more efficient technique for making the firm's Irgacure 819 photoinitiator. The key advance, the company says, involves reacting a phosphorus-derived starting material with sodium metal. The award went to a group of seven company scientists. According to Ciba, the project's foundation was a collaboration with a research team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

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