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Chemical Consulting

Chemical Consulting: Foundation Technology for Material Science and Engineered Products

Chemical consulting was the starting point for CECON more than 20 years ago, and today its chemical consultants excel in their accomplishments and accumulated knowledge. Chemistry is the foundational science for most other technologies. For example, the most complex semiconductor devices could not be built without chemistry and chemical engineering; all biological systems function on chemistry and physical chemical principals; drugs and pharmaceuticals utilize basic chemical relationships and functionality to provide therapeutic activity; and energy conversion and storage is most often a chemical process. Chemistry starts with the elements in the periodic chart and their chemical and physical combinations to develop useful systems. In the simplest classification system, chemistry is divided into two families: Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry.

Organic Chemistry

Organic chemistry breaks down into three main branches:
  • Physical Organic, many times the realm of the theoretician. How do chemical reactions occur?
  • Synthetic Organic, the preparation of new compounds or new ways of making old compounds.
  • Analytical Organic, the application of chemical analysis to organic compounds.
Proper sampling and analysis might require an analytical organic chemist as a consultant. Increased production in the petroleum industry might require novel research on petroleum cracking and catalysis. Organic materials have wide ranging applications -- they are even engineered to provide electro conductivity, for example the use of polyacetylene and polyanaline polymer chains.

Examples of Organic Chemistry

Below is a list of some areas of organic chemistry for which CECON is prepared to provide consultants.
  • Adhesives & Sealants
  • Biochemistry
  • Carbohydrates
  • Carbon
  • CFC (Freon(R), Geon(R))
  • Colloids
  • Cosmetics
  • Conductive Polymers
  • Degradations
  • Dyes
  • Enzymes
  • Foods
  • Fuels
  • Halocarbons, fluorocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons
  • Herbicides
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Hydrogenation
  • Medicinal chemistry
  • Monomers, the precursors of plastics & high molecular polymers
  • Natural Products, from steroids to heterocycles
  • Patents
  • Perfumes
  • Petroleum
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Plastics
  • Pollution Abatement
  • Polymers
  • Silicone
  • Solvents
  • Sugars
  • Thermoplastics

Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry is the application of chemistry to the world metals, minerals, salts, ceramics, pigments, metallic compounds and non-covalently linked carbon compounds. Inorganic chemistry generally includes organometallic materials, for example TiCl4 or (titanium tetrachloride) or SiCl2(OC2H5)2 (dichloro silane).