Search Thermo Fisher Scientific
Search Thermo Fisher Scientific
With our extensive portfolio of chemicals, we offer comprehensive solutions for all your chemical needs. Whether you are engaged in initial research or scaling up to full production, we can customize products specifically for you.
Our bulk chemical solutions can allow you to go beyond the catalog and scale up from grams to hundreds or thousands of kilograms.
More efficient workflow
Availability and access to your chemicals are critical to business success. Long lead times and supply disruptions are avoidable pitfalls. With our bulk chemical services, we can provide 10x a catalog size and give you supply security with less ordering, allowing you to focus on your R&D without interruptions.
We offer over 8,000 chemicals in the following core research areas:
Through our own manufacturing facilities and key manufacturing partnerships, we can provide a broad range of organic and organometallic compounds.
These compounds include aldehydes, alkenes, amines, aromatics, esters, ethers, hydrocarbons, ketones, heterocyclics, alkyllithium reagents, metallocenes, and more. Many of these compounds are available in semi-bulk quantities from stock. Some are in regular production and are available in bulk for next-day shipment. We also supply most of our 36,000 organics and organometallic compounds from stock in research and development quantities. Our broad experience in manufacturing, sourcing, and handling a wide range of chemical materials enables us to respond quickly and efficiently to your needs.
Custom synthesis and special packaging services help meet your specific research and development requirements. All products ship with a comprehensive material safety data sheet and certificate of analysis. We recognize that prompt delivery is crucial, so we always strive to meet promised delivery dates.
Our production lab chemists have expertise in all the common synthetic organic reactions, including the named reactions featured in our series on key organic transformations.
With over 30 years of experience, Thermo Scientific Chemicals is known worldwide as a leading manufacturer of high-purity inorganic compounds.
We produce thousands of distinct materials to exacting standards for research and development applications. Our brands are recognized for purity and quality and are backed by technical and sales teams dedicated to providing exceptional service.
We employ a range of production vessels from 50 liters through 2500 liters to manufacture our range of inorganics, which includes chlorides, nitrites, metal oxides, double metal oxides, sulfates, sulfides, hydrides, chromates, sulfites, and more. We also offer custom synthesis and special packaging services to meet your specific requirements. All products ship with a comprehensive Material Safety Data Sheet and Certificate of Analysis.
Below is a descriptive list of our high-purity inorganic brands:
Puratronic inorganic compounds
The Puratronic line of base metal salts, solutions, and pure elements is the leading choice of pharmaceutical and high-technology companies needing the basic building blocks for many research and development processes. Each Puratronic compound has a minimum purity of 99.99% (metals basis) and each is backed by a lot-specific certificate of analysis. Our Puratronic production labs are in continuous operation and can produce batch sizes from a few grams up to hundreds of kilograms. We also have the capability to custom-produce compounds of different purities and mesh sizes.
Anhydrous salts
Thermo Scientific Chemicals provides a comprehensive line of ultra-dry anhydrous salts, the first choice for air- and moisture-sensitive research applications.
Ultra-dry materials are manufactured under exacting conditions to ensure that impurities and water content are in the parts per million range. High purity starting materials are used in the manufacturing process, resulting in typical overall purities of 99.9% to 99.999%. Typical analysis is by Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry (GDMS), which ensures high accuracy and detail. All anhydrous salts are ampouled under argon, and most are available in -10 mesh bead and powder form. Anhydrous salts are available in multi-kilogram quantities.
REacton rare earth products
Through a combination of strong sourcing and manufacturing capabilities, Thermo Scientific Chemicals has become a leading global producer of rare earth metals, alloys, and compounds, including a wide range of oxides, chlorides, fluorides, nitrates, and trifluoromethanesulfonates. The REacton brand line, recognized as a benchmark for high purity rare earths, includes scandium and yttrium as well as the entire lanthanide series of elements: neodymium, cerium, europium, ytterbium, lanthanum, and gadolinium (excluding promethium). We also offer a range of specialty rare earths, such as sputtering sources, magnetostrictive rods, and custom preparations for numerous laboratory research applications. Custom blends and solutions are also available. Custom synthesis and special packaging services are available to meet your specific requirements. All of our rare earth products ship with a comprehensive Material Safety Data Sheet, and REacton brand products always include a Certificate of Analysis. We recognize that prompt delivery is crucial, so we always strive to meet promised delivery dates. Virtually all products listed are in stock for immediate delivery, many in bulk.
ACS certified chemicals
Thermo Scientific Chemicals provides a complete line of American Chemical Society (ACS) certified chemicals. Each chemical is tested to meet the specifications set forth in the Tenth Edition of Reagent Chemicals. Most materials are available in quantities from a few kilograms to hundreds of kilograms. Our Thermo Scientific line of ACS chemicals is commonly used in analytical testing but can also be used in high-purity laboratory research applications.
Nanopowders and dispersions
Thermo Scientific Chemicals offers a wide range of nanoparticle products ranging from pure elements to oxide powders and dispersions. We stock an extensive range of raw nanoparticles as well as nanoparticle dispersions and accept requests for custom production of nanoparticle products.
Thermo Scientific Chemicals offers a full range of catalysts manufactured to stringent specifications.
We carry a wide selection of catalysts in varying purities and concentrations for a broad range of laboratory research applications, including organic synthesis research in professional and industrial settings. Our offerings include:
Most materials are in stock in production quantities for immediate delivery. Our catalyst optimization services include catalyst process development within multi-step syntheses, knowledge-based catalyst selection, and process scale-up.
Below are some of our popular products:
Precious metal compounds and catalysts
We supply a comprehensive range of over 350 high-purity precious metal compounds as well as homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. These products are widely used in chemical processes for reactions ranging from gas phase oxidation through selective hydrogenation of chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical feedstocks to fuel cell power generation.
Most materials are in stock in production quantities for immediate delivery. Product quality is assured through our strict quality standards and backed by comprehensive certificates of analysis. Custom manufacturing, special packaging, and prompt delivery are all part of the services we offer.
Fuel cell catalysts for anodes, cathodes, electrodes
We are also a leading developer of catalysts and other products for fuel cell research and development. We exclusively offer these products from stock in bulk and semi-bulk quantities. Thermo Scientific Chemicals offers a variety of fuel cell components, including membranes, carbon paper, cathodes, anodes, and membrane electrode assembly (MEA) products.
Specialty silver compounds
Thermo Scientific Chemicals is renowned as a leader in specialized high-purity silver products. By employing several starting materials, we are able to control specific impurities consistently. We have the capability to produce batch sizes from 25 kg through 200 kg. Many silver compounds are photosensitive. All our specialized silver compounds are packaged in lightproof containers. We also offer custom development and manufacture of other silver compounds.
Thermo Scientific Chemicals is well known for the manufacture of high-purity specialty metals and materials, including pure elements, for a variety of research and development applications.
Pure metals and pure elements from our Thermo Scientific portfolio are used in research and development applications such as:
We also offer a wide variety of high-purity precious metal products (gold, iridium, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, and silver) in a variety of forms, such as wires, foils, powders, and more.
With the advent of advanced materials research for the microelectronics industry, Thermo Scientific Chemicals introduced the Puratronic line of base metals and PremIon precious metals. We also offer a full range of rare earth metals in various forms, including the REacton brand line. Rare earth metals are typically packaged under inert gas such as argon or in mineral oil to prevent tarnish and corrosion.
As a specialty metals manufacturer, we are accustomed to providing custom fabrication and special packaging services to meet your specific requirements. All products ship with a comprehensive Certificate of Analysis and Material Safety Data Sheet.
Below are some of the research and development applications in which our products are used:
Thermocouple wires
Seven types of thermocouple wires are available from stock and cut to length for a variety of lab applications and temperature ranges. We carry certified type S, type R, type B, type J, type K, type T, and type E wires.
Engineering ceramics
A selection of ceramic products in a variety of shapes and materials is available, including high-purity alumina (Al2O3), zirconia (ZrO2), and other oxide, nitride, and carbide materials.
Our ceramics provide advantages such as extreme purity, extreme resistance to corrosion, good thermal conductivity, stability in oxidizing and reducing atmospheres, ultra-high vacuum resistance, stability at high temperatures, and a good resistance to thermal shock.
Materials technology: crystals, evaporation materials, and substrates
We offer a variety of materials for coating, photonic, and electronic applications, including single crystal oxides, optical materials, superconducting powders, metal crystals, coating materials, and semiconductor materials.
Our line of alkali metal borate fusion fluxes offers a variety of standard flux formulations for sample preparation in a variety of analytical research applications.
Thermo Scientific Chemicals has a world-renowned reputation for consistently supplying the highest quality analytical fluxes for mineralogical research applications in the geosciences and the cement and steel industries.
For more than 30 years, chemists have relied on alkali borate fusion fluxes for use in methods such as:
Our batch-specific analysis is designed to ensure reproducibility and accuracy of your research results.
Aside from offering a wide range of fluxes, we supply customized formulations to meet specific analytical requirements.
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