Alfa Chemistry Blog

As the fastest growing class of materials in chemistry today, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have become ideal candidates for storage of fuels (hydrogen and methane), capture of carbon dioxide, and catalysis applications as well as many other applications. To meet the increasing market demand accompanying this trend, Alfa Chemistry has recently launched a subsidiary website, which is specially designed for supplying MOF chemicals , COFs linkers , and MOF materials .   MOFs are made by linking inorganic and organic units by strong bonds through reticular synthesis. Due to the flexibility and variation of the constituents’ geometry, size, and functionality, there have been more than 20,000 different MOFs reported and studied since the discovery of the first MOF structure in the 1990s. And the number still grows daily.   “Up till now, MOFs with permanent porosity are more extensive in their variety and multiplicity than any other class of porous materials,” says a senior scienti...

  Alfa Chemistry, one of the world's leading suppliers of chemicals for research and industry, has recently made available to the public more than 30 of its most popular chemical products. These products are designed to meet the needs of the scientific community and provide them with the necessary tools to advance their research and development efforts.   "These 30+ hot products fall into nine categories, each of which has a detailed introductory page on our website. Material Safety Data Sheets and Certificates of Analysis (COAs) are available for almost all of these chemicals and can be downloaded immediately," said Alfa Chemistry's Marketing Director. "With this move, we hope to provide a closer look at some of these groundbreaking products and their potential applications, as well as help customers with their searches.”   One of the highlights of Alfa Chemistry's new offerings is D-pantethine   (CAS 16816-67-4) , a derivative of pantothenic acid. D-pante...

With the development of coordination chemistry, the application of nitrogen-donor ligands has become more widespread. To meet the increasing demand arising from market and industry, Alfa Chemistry Catalysts announces the release of porphyrin ligands and phthalocyanine ligands , one type of nitrogen-donor ligands, for wide applications in fields like materials science, organic synthesis and biomedicine. The porphyrin ligand is a planar, dianionic macrocycle with four nitrogen donors in a square planar arrangement, with a hole size of radius close to 2.0 Å. Phthalocyanine (Pc) molecules are macrocyclic compounds composed of an inner porphyrazine ring that connects four isoindole groups giving rise to the characteristic cross-like shape. “Porphyrin ligands and phthalocyanine ligands are solids with higher melting points and darker colors. They are advantageous due to their relative stableness when exposed to light and heat. Another prominent chemical property is that they are able to ...