[enahs]

So, what do you do when you chemically synthesize a product that you can already buy from Sigma Aldrich. But if you bought this quantity from Sigma Aldrich it would cost $85,000 dollars, and it cost you ~$20 in material to make?
Ohh, and the stuff you made has 15 times less impurities than the stuff you buy from Sigma Aldrich.


No really, what do you do? Cause I did that this last weekend....

[nj_bartel]

What substance would this be? 

[Borek]

Patent? Then prepare more and start to advertize

The question is, who is the intellectual property owner - you, or the lab.

[macman104]

I agree with Borek.  If you can reliably make it, and it is something that a chemical company could easily scale-up (as in, they may not like the use of heavy metals and such, or specialized apparati, which is that a plural of apparatus?), I would consider a patent.

But Borek does bring up a point about who the property holder is.  You should check ideally with the counsel at your lab, or an outside lawyer.

[408]

I turned $100 of reagents into ~$5000 once, but I like yours better.
Am curious what compound you made, mine was simple oxidation of dibromofluorene ($25/25g) to dibromofluorenone($50/g)

I have heard rumours that Aldrich does not do all their own synthesis, but will buy specialty chemicals off the groups that make them.

[swallerick]

I would start a business specialising in that particular chemical.

Will you ever tell us what chemical you made?  It's been over three weeks.

[nj_bartel]

3 weeks? It's been 6 months, lol