UR - University Rouen - Research Organisation

Organisation description

General description:

General description: The university of Rouen has about 25 000 students, of which 3000 belong to the Faculty of Science. The Department of Chemistry includes 3 laboratories: for Organic Synthesis, for Polymers and Membranes, and for Separative Methods. The latter (Laboratory for Sciences et Méthodes Séparatives) was established and is headed by Prof. Gerard Coquerel.

Expertise

Specific dual approach of the crystallization involves: (i) the knowledge of the
heterogeneous equilibria which govern the driving force of all crystallizations (ii) the control of the kinetic parameters. We are intensively collaborating with Prof. R. Davey (exchange of PhD students) and Prof. A. Seidel-Morgenstern (Exchange of PhD student and post doc). We have also extensive and long term collaborations with pharmaceutical industries such as: Cephalon Inc. (USA PA), Sanofi-Aventis (F), UCB-Pharma (B), Innate-Pharma (F), Servier (F), Merck KaGA (D).

Facilities

Thermally regulated Crystallizers from few ml up to 10 liters including flexible reactors.
Polarimeters,
HPLC,
GC,
High pressure crystallizers,
RMN 300 mHz,
Planetary mill,
cryogenic mill,
XRPD,
Single crystal XRD,
DSC,
TGA-DSC-MS,
modulated-DSC, 3
DITA prototypes: Discontinuous Isoperibolic Thermal Analyzers,
optical microscope (up to x7000),
hot stage microscope,
DVS,
molecular modeling facilities (Sybyl, Cerius2)

Other European projects the organisation has been involved in:

INTERREG IIIA (University of Lille I, University of Greenwich, University of Rouen)

Role in the project

Coordinator of WP4, participation in WP2

Key personnel involved in INTENANT

Prof. Gerard Coquerel is head of the Laboratory for Sciences et Méthodes Séparatives at University Rouen. Among other responsibilities, he is expert for the French Ministery of Research and Education and vice-president of the Group for Thermodynamics of
Heterogeneous Equilibria (French Chemical Society).