We are committed to providing our customers with the right solvent for their specific application. The Solvent Center was created to aid all visitors in their exploration of the right solvent by providing a concise summary of solvents by purity, grade, application, product lines or market. Packaging options are also a critical part of our “Right Solvent Commitment” and these options can be explored at “Solvent Center” as well as literature listings and special offers.
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Solvents for Instrumental Analysis |
• HPLC • LC-MS • UHPLC-MS • HPLC Blends • GC Headspace • GC-ECD/GC-FID • UV-Vis • NMR |
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Applications and Markets |
• Agro, Food and Beverage • Bioanalytical and Biotech • Chemical Industry • Environmental • Pharmaceutical Industry |
Find the solvent quality that you need for your application. Our comprehensive range of solvent grades include those for general chemistry, high-performance analysis (e.g. spectroscopy, GC or UHPLC-MS) and solvents with compliance to international regulations such as ISO 6353, Reag. Ph. Eur. or ACS.
Application | Description | Grade |
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General Chemistry and Cleaning |
Our Reagent grade solvents are ≥95% pure. | Reagent Grade Solvents |
General Chemistry | Our ReagentPlus® solvents have a guaranteed purity of ≥98.5% for applications that require higher purities, such as specialty organic synthesis or preparative scale liquid chromatography. | ReagentPlus® Grade Solvents |
Chemical Synthesis and Chromatography |
Our ACS solvents meet or exceed the stringent quality specifications set by the American Chemical Society. | ACS Grade Solvents |
Chemical Synthesis | Our high-purity Anhydrous solvents are known for their extremely low water levels. Specifically manufactured for moisture sensitive chemistry and biotech applications. | Anhydrous Solvents |
Protein Synthesis and Purification |
Our Biotech solvents are characterized by low water content, minimal residue and clean UV spectra. | Biotech Solvents |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) |
Known for its high-quality NMR solvents used with NMR Instrumentation. | NMR Solvents |
Biochemistry | Our Histological solvents specifically manufactured for use with tissue sampling and processing applications. | Histological Solvents |
Instrument Analysis | Solvents suitability tested for HPLC. | HPLC |
HPLC solvents suitability tested for isocratic elution. | HPLC Isocratic | |
HPLC solvents suitability tested for gradient elution. | HPLC Gradient | |
HPLC solvents for gradient, UV and residue analysis. | HPLC Plus Solvents | |
LC-MS solvents suitability tested for LC-MS/MS with ESI and/or APCI source. | LC-MS | |
UHPLC-MS solvents suitability tested for UHPLC-UV and UHPLC-MS/MS. | UHPLC-MS | |
GC solvents suitability tested for GC/ECD and GC-FID detectors. | GC-ECD/GC-FID | |
GC solvents suitability tested for analysis of residue solvents and organic volatile impurities using GC Headspace technique. | GC Headspace | |
Solvents suitability tested for UV and IR spectroscopy. | UV Spectroscopy | |
Multi-Compendial | ||
Electronic Grade Solvents are used extensively throughout the semiconductor industry including cleaning equipment, drying wafers and substrate deposition or removal. We have a large portfolio of high purity solvents to address the needs of the electronics market. | Semiconductor Solvents | |
IR Solvents | ||
Classical QC Analysis according Reag. Ph Eur or according to ISO 6353 | EMSURE® grade solvents are suitable for a broad spectrum of regulated and highly demanding lab applications. EMSURE® provides worldwide best and most extensive product specifications. | EMSURE® Grade for Analysis |
Classical QC Analysis according ACS | EMPARTA® solvents are of a high quality that fulfills the requirements of the ACS and can be used for a wide range of analytical applications. EMSURE® solvents offer even more (see above). | EMSURE® and EMPARTA® Solvents |
Preparative lab work, cleaning and production | With EMPLURA® we offer a range of solvents for a plurality of basic applications in non-regulated industries and for less demanding applications, preparative laboratory work and cleaning purposes. | EMPLURA® Solvents |
Preparative chromatography | Prepsolv® solvents are tailored to the requirements of preparative HPLC to facilitate scale-up from analytical to preparative separations. | Prepsolv® Preparative Chromatography Solvents |
DNA and RNA synthesis/Peptide synthesis | Our solvents for DNA and peptide synthesis are specifically processed and purified to maximize synthesis efficiency and yields for these critical applications. | For DNA, RNA and Peptide Synthesis |
Analytical | Our Spectrophotometric solvents are excellent for applications requiring high-purity, low residue on evaporation and a clean UV spectrum. Each one is rigorously tested during and after production to ensure lot-to-lot consistency. | Spectrophotometric Solvents |