Chiral Intermediates

Business Strengths
Chiral Intermediates with High Enantiomeric Purity
Flexible Multi-Product Plants
Tailor-Made New Chiral Intermediates and Auxiliaries

BASF produces a wide range of chiral intermediates that are based on selected biotechnical processes. These are useful building blocks and auxiliaries in the Life Science industry. By employing highly selective processes for biotransformations and proprietary enzymatic reactions, BASF is able to offer these chiral products with outstandingly high enantiomeric purities.

Our focus in this field is three-fold:
on enzymatic reactions leading to chiral amines, alcohols, and derivatives.
on fermentations using materials from the available chiral pool.
on fermentative hydroxylations of aromatic compounds.

This highly developed, proprietary BASF technology, coupled with our strong R&D expertise in this area, gives us the ability to serve you with both tailor-made syntheses of new chiral products as well as custom manufacturing using your racemic raw materials.

Examples from our Standard Product Line

Chiral Aliphatic and Aromatic Amines

Chiral Carboxylic Acids and Derivatives

Reactions
Fermentation
Enzymatic Reactions