The Vincent Lindsay lab at NC State develops new catalytic modes of activation of small molecules to accelerate the synthesis of biologically relevant organic compounds. In 2021, they received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the chemistry of cyclopropanones, a class of highly reactive chemicals that can be employed as starting materials for a range of biologically active compounds. As would be expected for a lab performing a lot of organic synthesis, they also perform a lot of evaporative separations, which means their lab is stocked with rotary evaporators.

A lot of rotary evaporators has meant a lot of dry ice and a few recirculating chillers, neither of which were optimal solutions. See what Dr. Lindsay has to say about replacing them with the EcoChyll X1 – and why he was so happy with the X1 he bought three!