H-Cube Tutor™

The H-Cube Tutor™ hydrogenation reactor − a simple and safe reactor to enable undergraduates and researchers to perform hydrogenation as part of their degree.

Current undergraduate programs do not include a practical session on hydrogenation due to the safety concerns with handling hydrogen (in balloons or cylinders) and pyrophoric catalysts.

However, approximately 5-10% of reactions in the whole of the chemical industry are forms of hydrogenation and so it is essential for their future industrial or academic careers that the students gain first hand practical experience wih hydrogenation during university.

The H-Cube Tutor™ is a continuous-flow hydrogenation reactor designed solely for academic affiliations for education purposes. It is derived from the ThalesNano H-Cube®, and R&D 100 Award winning bench top hydrogenation reactor, which has been available to both academia and industry since 2005. The H-Cube® has been widely adopted by the pharmaceutical industry for medicinal chemistry research and is rapidly becoming the standard for hydrogenation, replacing the existing "shaker" type technologies.

Key benefits

• No Hydrogen Cylinders Necessary -Hydrogen is generated from electrolysis of water on demand
• No Catalyst Filtering, Weighing Out, or Clean Up - Catalysts are packed into disposable cartridges
• Reactions go to completion in minutes
• React compounds at temperatures up to 100°C (212°F) safely
• Analyze Reaction Mixture After 4 Minutes!
• Easy to Use - Chemists of all levels can learn how to use it in minutes