Established in 1987, Menai Organics provides a professional
service and value for money. The company specialises in diverse ranges
of fine organic chemicals as intermediates for parallel synthesis and
solid-phase synthesis for research and development.
We are now serving North America with Barry Feigelman, our new North
American sales manager. Barry has worked over the last ten years
serving the needs of clients within the pre-clinical drug discovery
chemistry sector. He has effectively provided pharmaceutical, biotech
and academic clients with all types of small molecule compound libraries
and custom chemistry services. Since 2006, he worked at InFarmatik, Inc.
as their National Account Manager for the U.S. and Canada. Prior to
that, he spent six years as the National Sales Manager for ComGenex, a
full service European drug discovery chemistry CRO, which later became
part of Albany Molecular. Barry looks forward to providing you with
highly responsive customer service. Contact
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Our Intermediate and screening catalogues on CD or e-mail contain over
5000 products (available in milligrammes, grammes and in most cases up
to 1 kilo) and rare intermediates and
polymer supported reagents, many unavailable elsewhere.
All compounds in our catalogues are synthesised and analysed "in-house."
Facilities include IR, 1H-NMR, U.V. and HPLC. Screening catalogue
products are supplied at a minimum of 90% purity by
HPLC. Intermediates from our Intermediates catalogue show individual
purities, typically 98% by HPLC.
Menai Organics Ltd. has undertaken analysis of bracken, bracken compost and groundwater run-off in areas with bracken for the presence of the carcinogen ptaquiloside and related compounds.
Consumption of the bracken fern Pteridium aquilinum by cattle has been shown to induce bladder and intestinal carcinomas in cattle and to cause a number of diseases in other farm animals. An unstable glucoside named ptaquiloside, containing a reactive cyclopropane ring, has been isolated from the fern and its potent carcinogenicity proven.
Reference: Potter, D.M. and Pitman, R.M. (1994) The extraction and characterisation of carcinogens from bracken and the effect of composting.
International Bracken Group special publication No. 2, Bracken: an
environmental issue, Bracken 94, University of Wales
Aberystwyth
23: 110-115.