At the core of our green technologies is the 'smart catalyst' developed through in-house research that is much more tolerant to water and provides quantitative conversion of several organic  reactions in water.  The preferred solvents for such transformations are the undesirable and toxic, high boiling point, polar, aprotic, N-methylpyrrolidinone (NMP), dimethylformamide (DMF) or dimethylacetamide (DMA). Using our 'smart catalyst' technology, we have demonstrated that advanced intermediates  can be prepared in water using our novel catalyst.We have also prepared several prototype hydrogel patches for transdermal delivery which were tested for effectiveness to deliver  naltrexone  via a transdermal microneedle (MN)

Development of new catalysts for greener industrial processes: Transdermal patches for drug delivery

248th National Meeting (2014)

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