history

    Argus Chemicals is a Rare & Fine Chemicals company in Vernio (North of Florence), Italy . The company was started in 1985 by Dr. Enrico Ammannati to produce chemicals for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

    On a lab-scale basis, the company began to produce rare and otherwise unobtainable compounds, not generally found in commercial catalogues.Through the years the company expanded its capabilities up to Pilot-plant-scale to be able to satisfy the demand for kilo-batches of products involving air-sensitive reagents.

    Initially Argus was devoted to the production of phosphine based ligands for metal catalysts. Now it also offers a broad service of R&D under secrecy agreement for pharmaceutical firms.

    The expert and enthusiastic team of chemists at Argus, is able to satisfy the needs of the customers in the field for complex multistep-syntheses, optimisation procedures, and scale-up syntheses.

    The R&D and Production departments are fully integrated.揂b initio攕ynthesis and scale-up (grams to kilos) constitute one of the major outsourcing proposals from our customers.

    what we offer

    The compounds produced by Argus, range from catalysts to intermediates for the pharmaceutical industry, and impurities of API抯. The range of our production is in the scale from grams to (hundreds of) kilos.

    Most of the chemicals we produce are the result of custom synthesis under secrecy agreement, so for this reason many compounds are not listed in the catalogue.

    Argus Chemicals does not only have a large variety of chemicals available through it抯 catalogue. We are also a research laboratory that specializes in Chemical Process Development, Custom Synthesis, and Analytical Method Development both on lab and pilot-plant scale.