Project description
An innovative production method of fine chemicals
The rapidly expanding chiral chemicals market incurs nearly half of its production costs from downstream processing, attributed to intricate separation challenges and stringent purification requirements. The EU-funded FUNAMBULIST project is geared towards pioneering a revolutionary, science-driven method for producing fine chemicals. This endeavour seeks to challenge the prevailing notion that the production of fine chemicals is contingent upon conventional synthetic pathways employing organic solvents. Central to this project is the development of a modular toolkit, which will facilitate an entirely novel strategy for conceptualising chemical reactions within the fine chemicals sector. This novel approach draws inspiration from the resourcefulness of biological processes, meticulously adapted within a controlled environment.
Objective
Almost half of the production costs in the rapidly growing chiral chemicals market is spent on the downstream processing costs due to challenging separation tasks and demanding levels of purification. FUNAMBULIST aims at a radically new science-enabled production of fine chemicals by emulating the ingenuity of biological processes in an engineered environment. In this way, FUNAMBULIST aims at overcoming the current dogma that fine chemicals are produced via traditional synthetic routes in organic solvents.
FUNAMBULIST creates a modular toolkit that enables a radically different approach to design chemical reactions in the fine chemicals market by abandoning the current, artificial gap between biological and chemical function.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2022-PATHFINDEROPEN-01
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48940 LEIOA
Spain
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