Investigating different physical and/or chemical forms of materials
First Claim
1. A method of investigating different physical and/or chemical forms of a material, the method comprising:
- providing an array of receptacles each containing material (hereinafter “
said initial material”
) to be investigated;
subjecting said initial material in respective different receptacles to respective different treatments under the control of a computer; and
analyzing any material resulting from said different treatments (hereinafter “
said resultant materials”
).
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Abstract
Apparatus and a method are described for investigating polymorphs of a material, isomers of a material which allow different isomeric forms to be resolved, different hydrates/solvates and/or different salts of a material. The apparatus comprises an assembly (2) of reactor devices (6) arranged within a reactor body (8) which incorporates a heating/cooling block (10) and a stirrer block (12). A vessel support block (14) supports respective sample vessels (15) below each reactor device (6) for receiving material from the reactor devices. The apparatus includes a control unit (4) which includes a computer (16) which controls a robot for delivering materials to the reactor devices; a heating/cooling unit (18); a stirrer control unit (20); and a pressure unit (22) which controls the passage of material from the reactor devices (6) to the sample vessels (15).
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43 Claims
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1. A method of investigating different physical and/or chemical forms of a material, the method comprising:
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providing an array of receptacles each containing material (hereinafter “
said initial material”
) to be investigated;
subjecting said initial material in respective different receptacles to respective different treatments under the control of a computer; and
analyzing any material resulting from said different treatments (hereinafter “
said resultant materials”
). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method of examining the effects in a treatment of a material of varying selected treatment variables, the method comprising preparing a first resultant material from an initial material using a first treatment using a first set of experimental variables and preparing a second resultant material from an initial material using a second treatment using a second set of experimental variables, wherein said first and second treatments are controlled by a computer.
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28. A method of preparing a library of resultant materials using an array of receptacles each of which includes an initial material, the method comprising varying selected treatment variables used to prepare resultant materials from said initial material, wherein the treatments to which said initial material are subjected are controlled by a computer.
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29. A method of effecting automatically the preparation of resultant materials from initial material, the method comprising preparing resultant materials from initial material using respective sets of physical and/or chemical treatments, wherein data relating to said sets is stored by a computer, and the treatments are undertaken under the control of the computer.
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30. Apparatus for investigating different physical and/or chemical forms of a material, the apparatus comprising:
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an array of receptacles for containing material (hereinafter “
initial material”
) to be investigated;
treatment means for subjecting initial material to respective different treatments; and
a computer arranged to control the respective different treatments to which initial material is subjected. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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