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Dr Kerry Elgie
@kerryasynt.bsky.social
#Chemistry product consultant specialising in pressure & jacketed lab reactors @Asynt. Ex porphyrin chemist. #LabSafety #Sustainability #Laboratory
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Building the stage for some serious photochemistry reactions.

Lights, vials, action! 💡 🧪

Bright ideas come to those who use the Illumin8.

Step into the spotlight and shine ✨

🔗 www.asynt.com/products/pho...

#photoreactor #photochemistry #photocatalysis @asynt.bsky.social #chemsky
A huge thank you to our customers, suppliers & distributors for all your support throughout the year.

Asynt will be closed from lunchtime on Wednesday 24th December until Monday 5th January.

Until then, I wish you a very Merry Christmas & here’s to a healthy & happy New Year.

#OutOfOfficeOn
December 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Reposted by Dr Kerry Elgie
Terpenes unite the graphics for day 21 of #ChemAdvent

Menthol in candy canes is responsible for the cooling sensation in your mouth when you eat one ❄️

The muddy flavour of carp is dominated by the compound geosmin, another terpene 🐟

#ChemSky 🧪
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas are some new Deutero NMR tubes please.

I’ve been good all year…mostly.🎄 🧪

Love an Asynt customer xx

PS you can get them from here, hint, hint: www.asynt.com/product/nmr-...

#ChristmasWish #NMR
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I spy a super paper on @asynt.bsky.social’s CSTR fReactor platform. 🔎

@nickwarren.bsky.social et al showcase an automated continuous flow reactor for rapid prototyping of emulsions via free-radical emulsion polymerisation.

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#FlowChemistry #Chemsky
December 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Reposted by Dr Kerry Elgie
More vibrant anthocyanins link the graphics for day 12 of #ChemAdvent: they colour both cranberries and puto bumbong, steamed purple rice cakes eaten in the Phillipines at Christmas.

#ChemSky 🧪
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Thinking of your next career move?

The @rsc.org’s £500 Researcher Development and Travel Grant can be used to:

🧪 Share your work at a conference

🧪 Build new skills or training

🧪 Put together your own scientific event

🔗 rsc.li/4aHBgrg

#RSCGrants #ChemSky
December 12, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@asynt.bsky.social ’s Illumin8 provided controlled 365 and 450 nm irradiation, giving the team reliable, reproducible conditions to confirm genuine photocatalytic behaviour rather than thermal effects.

🔗 link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

#Photochemistry #Photoreactor #Photocatalysis
December 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
You know it’s almost Christmas when it’s time for the traditional @asynt.bsky.social December trip to St Andrews for the Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium 💚🧪

All set up and making my elf at home! 🎅🏼

#PostGraduate #Chemistry #MyElfPunsReallySleigh
December 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Say hello to DrySyn MiniSpin.

Compact, controlled overhead stirring for vials preventing magnetic stirrer damage to resins and catalysts.

Small footprint, big difference.

Curious?

🔗 www.asynt.com/product/drys...

#parallelsynthesis #powerfulstirring #chemsky @asynt.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
@asynt.bsky.social’s Glass Static Mixers are ideal for high throughput, fast mixing and tightly controlled exothermic work.

Often used for:

🌀 Fast, exothermic or bi-phasic reactions

🌀 Pre-mixing before large scale reactions

Want to know more?

#FlowChemistry #GlassStaticMixers #Chemsky
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The @asynt.bsky.social Flow & #Photochemistry tour continues, this time at Alderley Park.

If you’d like to see any of our equipment in action, in your own lab, don’t hesitate to reach out & we’ll pop in for a live demo.

Flow Chemistry with a bit of glow-how! 😉

#flowchemistry
December 3, 2025 at 7:39 AM
As an ex porphyrin chemist this study sits close to my heart. 💜

“Continuous Flow Synthesis of Meso-substituted Porphyrins with Inline UV–Vis Analysis”

By @annaslater.bsky.social et al

🔗 www.asynt.com/news/meso-su...

#FlowChemistry #PorphyrinSynthesis #HeterocyclicMacrocycles @asynt.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Happy 1st December!

If all you want for Christmas is a “Tube in Plate” reactor, @asynt.bsky.social has the perfect fume hood filler for your lab. 🎅🏼 🌀

www.asynt.com/products/flo...

#temperaturecontrol #flowchemistry
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 AM
What a day!💡⚡️🌀

Thanks for hosting us @astra-zeneca.bsky.social

Always fantastic to hear what people are working on & where @asynt.bsky.social’s technology can hopefully make a difference.

Great to speak to a thriving community of scientists

#FlowChemistry #Photochemistry #Electrochemistry
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Black Friday at @asynt.bsky.social is coming………just don’t tell the boss! 🤫

www.asynt.com/news/asynt-b...

#YoureInCharge #BlackFriday #DontTellMartyn
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Customise, don’t compromise.

Strong overhead stirring ✅
Parallel synthesis ✅
Compact footprint ✅
Temperature control ✅

Make lab life that little bit easier with @asynt.bsky.social

🔗 www.asynt.com/products/bes...

#bespokedesign #laboratoryequipment #chemistry
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
@Cresswellgroup @BathChem used @Asynt’s PhotoSyn to power a continuous-flow photoredox step, helping drive a route to spirocyclic THN scaffolds with control and efficiency.

Check out the full paper here:

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

#FlowChemistry #Photochemistry #chemsky #realtimechem
November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Get the look! 👀

Clean, green synthesis with @asynt.bsky.social

💚 DrySyn heating blocks: www.asynt.com/products/ben...

💚 CondenSyn waterless condensers: www.asynt.com/products/ben...

Make the switch.

#SustainableLabs #GreenLabs #ChemSky #RealTimeChem
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Having availability issues with NMR tube purchases?

Are your NMR tube costs spinning out of control?

Shimmy over to @asynt.bsky.social & take a ‘peak’ at the Deutero NMR tube range.

🔗 www.asynt.com/product/nmr-...

Happy Thursday, folks!

#NMR #MakeTheSwitch #NMRTubes #Chemsky #RealTimeChem
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Hello Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at QUB! 🧪💚

It may be freezing, but the sun is shining here at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social ☀️

All set up to rock & roll with Martyn Fordham & @asynt.bsky.social

Let’s see if we can make your #lablife that little bit easier.

#InTheLab #Chemsky #GreenLabs
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hello Almac Sciences!

So lovely to be back here with Martyn Fordham and @asynt.bsky.social

There’s only so much we could fit in the car, but let’s chat:

💡Photochemistry
⚡️ Electrochemistry
🌀 Flow Chemistry
💎 Pressure Reactors

Looking forward to catching up with everyone. 👋🏼

#Chemsky #inthelab
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Make light work of #FlowChemistry with 180W of power using Asynt’s Borealis Flow. 💡

Delivering high intensity fixed-wavelength LED power for clean, efficient photochemical flow reactions, the system is fully light-tight with a safety interlock and runs with independent cooling.

#Photochemistry
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Next week @asynt.bsky.social, along with our distribution partner in temperature control, Lauda, are heading to @UK_ASF with a showcase designed to help chemists work smarter, cleaner and more confidently.
🔗: automatedsynthesisforum.com

Come and say hello 👋🏼

#ASF #chemsky #realtimechem
November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I have one aim today…….to make a guest appearance on the Chemistry Department at Lancaster University’s TikTok channel! 😂

All set up and raring to go. Let’s talk all things chemistry with @asynt.bsky.social

Thanks for all your help María Paz Muñoz 🧪💚

#AsyntOnTour #Photochemistry #FlowChemistry
November 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM