SciFluor: Streamlining fluorination

Adding fluorine can improve a compound's pharmaceutical properties, but chemists have never had an efficient method for integrating the atom into complex molecules. Having solved that problem, SciFluor Life Sciences LLC hopes to attract partners interested in using the technology to rescue unsuccessful drug candidates or to manage product lifecycles.

Founder and CTO Tobias Ritter began working on the fluorination technology five years ago in his lab at Harvard University, where he is an associate professor of chemistry...