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As a leading supplier of chemicals and building blocks for pharmaceutical research and synthetic chemistry, we provide access to over 140,000 high-quality compounds. Our comprehensive product portfolio is based on our 20 years experience providing innovative and cutting-edge building blocks with the highest quality. Our catalogue includes heterocycles, fluorinated compounds, spirocycles, cycloalkyls, boronic acids, amino acids, PEG linkers, alkynes, azides and much more – all available for fast delivery to support your research projects.

Our chemical building blocks are used by leading pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, and academic research institutions worldwide. We pride ourselves on our high-quality products and customer service. Every product is delivered with the highest quality standards for your research projects.

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We offer an extensive range of over 140,000 building blocks and chemical reagents including heterocycles, amino acids, boronic acids, PEG linkers, fluorinated compounds, spiro compounds, cycloalkyls, alkynes, azides, bicyclic rings, catalysts and many more specialised compounds for, organic chemistry, pharmaceutical research and drug discovery.

It is our top priority to provide high purity products to our customers. Our products are supplied with a standard purity of 95%, many with >98% or >99%. Each batch is verified through state-of-the-art analytical methods (NMR, HPLC, LC-MS) and documented with a Certificate of Analysis (CoA). Specific purity available upon request.

95% of our catalogue products are in stock, with delivery worldwide within 5 working days. Our experienced chemists ensure that for custom synthesis projects, typical delivery times range from 2-8 weeks with superior success rates.

Yes, we provide professional custom synthesis services for tailored chemical compounds. Our experienced team of chemists can synthesise complex molecules from milligram to kilogram quantities. We specialise in organic synthesis, amino synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, fluorine chemistry, boronic acid derivatives, and chiral synthesis.

Our product purity is validated by our QC department, with a Certificate of Analysis (CoA) available for all purchased material.  Purity is determined by NMR spectra (¹H-NMR, ¹³C-NMR), HPLC chromatograms, mass spectrometry (MS/LC-MS) data. The enantiomeric excess of chiral compounds is determined by optical rotation or chiral HPLC.

Absolutely. Our service supports projects from process development to pilot production. We can produce compounds in quantities ranging from milligrams for initial screening to kilograms for preclinical and clinical studies. We can support you through the drug discovery process at all scales. We optimize synthetic routes for maximum yield, minimum cost, and improved sustainability.

We deliver building blocks and reagents worldwide with complete documentation for international shipping from our offices in Germany and the UK. Our experienced logistics department handles all regulatory requirements, dangerous goods documentation, and customs paperwork. We have local inventory in Germany and the UK for faster delivery.

Yes, Activate Scientific operates dedicated warehouses in both the UK and Germany, allowing stock to be dispatched from whichever location is closer to the customer. This dual-site setup means UK customers can avoid EU customs delays, while EU-based labs can receive deliveries without the cross-Channel paperwork that has become common since Brexit. Having both UK and EU stock also reduces lead times for time-sensitive medicinal chemistry projects.
Fast EU to EU shipping is available from our German office. Our experienced logistics teams in our German office provide our customers with first class customer service. All orders for customers in the EU will be shipped from our German office for fast, hassle free EU-EU delivery.
Yes, EU customers order directly from the German head office, so shipments stay within the EU and never cross UK customs. This avoids the extra paperwork, import VAT complications, and delays that have affected EU-UK chemical shipping since 2021. Orders are processed and dispatched intra-EU, which keeps delivery times predictable for research labs working to tight deadlines.
Yes, we offer shipping to the USA. We regularly ship our building blocks and reagents to the United States of America. Our experienced logistics department handles all regulatory requirements, dangerous goods documentation, and customs paperwork.
Yes, safety data sheets and the commercial invoices needed for customs clearance are provided with every international shipment. This is standard for any supplier shipping chemicals across borders, and the documentation typically meets both US and Canadian import requirements. Having this paperwork ready in advance helps avoid delays at customs.

We offer an advanced structure search tool powered by Marvin JS technology that allows you to search by molecular structure, substructure, and similarity. You can draw your target structure directly in the browser and find exact matches, similar compounds, or building blocks containing specific substructures. You can also search our catalogue using compound ID, name, CAS and SMILES code.

Yes, our catalogue supports CAS number based searching. Our search tools allow you to search using:

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We also offer structure search. Our search tools offer Substructure search, Exact structure and Similarity search. This allows you to find the product you want as quickly and easily as possible. Our quick and easy-to-use search tools help you save time when looking for chemicals. The similarity and structure search helps you easily find great alternatives if we do not have the material you are looking for.

Yes, our chemical building blocks are specifically designed for pharmaceutical research and drug discovery. They are used by all big pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, and academic research institutions worldwide for applications including drug discovery, lead optimisation, fragment-based drug design, and chemical biology.

Yes, we work under strict confidential non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) for all custom synthesis projects. We protect your intellectual property throughout the entire project and maintain complete confidentiality regarding your compound structures, research goals, and project details.

Yes, the catalogue includes chiral building blocks, and enantiomeric purity is confirmed by either optical rotation measurements or chiral HPLC analysis. For custom synthesis projects, the team can produce enantiomerically pure target compounds from scratch, including through asymmetric synthesis routes. Chiral purity data is documented in the Certificate of Analysis. Specific chiral purity is available on request.

Our products are used in diverse research areas including drug discovery and lead optimization, fragment-based drug design (FBDD), chemical biology and probe development, agrochemical research, materials science, peptide and protein conjugation, bioconjugation, click chemistry, and medicinal chemistry research across various therapeutic areas.

Yes, the catalogue includes PEG linkers, alkyl linkers, and functional building blocks commonly used in PROTAC design, including amine and carboxylic acid termini for coupling to both the target ligand and the E3 ligase binder. The linker catalogue alone contains over 400 PEG linker products at high purity. In addition to our linkers, we also offer CRBN ligands and VHL ligands. We have established a robust library of pre-formed E3-ligand linker intermediates. This resource enables the efficient synthesis of a wide array of diverse PROTAC candidates, facilitating their rapid evaluation and optimisation for targeted protein degradation applications.

For bespoke PROTAC linker synthesis or custom bifunctional molecules, the custom synthesis team can be contacted using our contact tools.

Yes, the catalogue is well suited for fragment-based drug design (FBDD) programmes, with a broad selection of small, low molecular weight scaffolds across heterocycle classes including pyridines, imidazoles, pyrazoles, and indoles. Fragment libraries can be assembled from the catalogue using the structure search tool to select compounds that meet defined fragment criteria such as molecular weight below 300 Da and cLogP below 3. Custom fragment sets can also be compiled through the sales team.
Drug-likeness properties such as cLogP, hydrogen bond donor count, and hydrogen bond acceptor count are physicochemical parameters that indicate how suitable a compound is for oral drug development. Activate Scientific displays these values on individual product pages so researchers can quickly filter or compare building blocks without having to calculate properties themselves. This saves time during hit-to-lead and lead optimisation campaigns where Lipinski and related rule sets are used to prioritise compound selection.
Yes, Activate Scientific is accessible through SAP Ariba, which allows procurement teams at large pharmaceutical companies and institutions to raise purchase orders through their existing procurement platforms without setting up a separate account or payment process. This simplifies ordering for organisations that require all supplier transactions to go through an approved procurement system.
Catalogue building blocks are available from milligram quantities, with standard pack sizes typically ranging from 100 mg to 1 kg depending on the compound. Pricing per pack is shown on individual product pages in GBP, EUR, USD, and CHF.

Smaller pack sizes not listed on our website are available on request. For larger quantities or custom pack sizes not listed, the sales team can provide a quote.
We work with individual research groups and institutional procurement teams and are happy to discuss account terms, including SAP Ariba integration for large organisations — contact our sales team to discuss options relevant to your institution or company.
Standard catalogue pack sizes start from 100 mg for most compounds, letting you trial a building block at low cost before scaling up — for pack sizes smaller than those listed on the product page, contact our sales team directly.

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We've just added PITU \(N-hydroxyphthalimide tetramethyluronium hexafluorophosphate\) AS17471 to our building block collection. This uronium-type reagent sits in the same coupling reagent family as HBTU and HATU, but is particularly useful for the rapid generation of redox-active esters directly from carboxylic acids for use in nickel-catalyzed decarboxylative cross-coupling.

Rather than being used for conventional amide bond formation in this transformation, PITU converts alkyl carboxylic acids into N-hydroxyphthalimide \(NHPI\) esters in situ, creating a handle for single-electron-transfer \(SET\) chemistry. Under nickel electrocatalysis, the resulting redox-active ester loses carbon dioxide and forms a new C\(sp²\)–C\(sp³\) bond with an aryl or vinyl halide partner. The result is a practical route from simple, widely available carboxylic acids to complex carbon frameworks without requiring pre-activated organometallic reagents. Decarboxylative cross-coupling has become a valuable tool for medicinal chemists looking to diversify late-stage intermediates and build molecular complexity efficiently. If you would like to read more take a look at the following papers: Koyanagi and colleagues first reported a one-pot electrochemical nickel-catalyzed approach using PITU-derived redox-active esters, achieving high yields with broad functional group tolerance across nitrile, ketone, ester and alkene substituents https://lnkd.in/gwp5\_N9b Laudadio and coworkers provided a broader perspective on how carboxylic acid-derived radical cross-coupling is reshaping medicinal chemistry disconnections beyond conventional amide bond formation https://lnkd.in/gU9YD24E If your programme relies on decarboxylative cross-coupling or redox-active ester chemistry, PITU is now available through our catalogue. AS17417 is available on our website via this link https://lnkd.in/edKucnG2

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Pyridines in Drug Discovery​

  Pyridine has a strong claim to being the single most useful nitrogen heterocycle in medicinal chemistry. Swapping one CH for N gives a ring with the planarity and aromaticity of benzene but with an sp²-hybridised nitrogen with a lone pair available that reshapes lipophilicity, solubility, and hydrogen bonding all at once. That combination is why pyridine turns up so often when a team is trying to fix a compound's metabolic stability or improve its lipophilicity profile without losing potency.​   Beyond simple phenyl replacement, pyridine frequently serves as a handle for tuning pKa, reducing lipophilicity and introducing directional hydrogen-bonding interactions without dramatically changing molecular size.   A recent structural survey of FDA-approved small molecules bearing this ring found 54 pyridine-containing drugs approved between 2014 and 2023 alone, spanning at least eight distinct therapeutic categories, from anticancer agents and CNS drugs to antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals, hematopoietic agents, rare disease treatments, and diagnostic contrast agents. Kinases dominate the target list, and cancer accounts for roughly a third of the approvals in that window.​   Tovorafenib is a good illustration of what the ring is doing mechanistically rather than just decoratively. Approved in 2024 as the first systemic therapy for pediatric low-grade glioma with a BRAF alteration, its trifluoromethyl-substituted pyridine ring sits directly in the hydrophobic pocket vacated by the DFG motif phenylalanine when the kinase flips to its inactive conformation. The pyridine ring is not simply a hydrophobic substituent. It contributes directly to the type II binding mode by occupying this pocket, while its substitution pattern helps optimise interactions.   None of this is new territory for medicinal chemists, but the breadth of therapeutic areas where the ring keeps proving useful is a reminder of how much design flexibility a single heterocycle can offer.   Explore our range of building blocks using the advanced search tools at https://lnkd.in/eVbfw6Ua​   To read more, take a look at the following interesting papers: ​   1. A decade of pyridine-containing heterocycles in US FDA approved drugs: a medicinal chemistry-based analysis https://lnkd.in/e\_mzcM8n​ 2. Pyridine-containing antitumor agents: structure-oriented medicinal chemistry, structure-activity relationships, and ADMET liabilities https://lnkd.in/gHCKvuH6​ 3. The Structure-Antiproliferative Activity Relationship of Pyridine Derivatives https://lnkd.in/eaqBKnBA​  

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