Chemical Synthesis and Characterization

Our chemists provide high-quality products and services to academic institutions, pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, agrochemical companies, and government agencies. Our government clients include the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and various military agencies.

We are dedicated to research quality and client service as well as to well-designed and controlled lab methodologies. We build long-term relationships with our clients and, by taking advantage of RTI facilities and multidisciplinary capabilities, commit ourselves to designing a program to meet any set of customer objectives.

Services

Capabilities

  • Procedures and methodologies designed to fit customer need as to scale, yield, and substance expense and availability
  • Thorough confirmation of structure, purity, and quality of synthesized compounds using high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance
  • Ability to synthesize unknown compounds and substances with no known preparations
  • Pharmaceutical-based research such as drug metabolism and distribution studies to receptor binding studies and radioimmunoassays
  • Coordinated synthesis and testing of chemical agents
  • Comprehensive publication-quality documentation
Spotlight

Accelerating the Search for Novel Drugs

Among the investments RTI International made in 2011 is a program to study a new molecular target that may prove to be useful in the treatment of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, and a range of other disorders. Read more