The START system

Academia moves up to Microwave Organic Chemistry

A new microwave labstation, Milestone's START System, has been d eveloped specifically for the academic laboratory environment, offering a full-featured microwave labstation at an affordable cost and with student-proof safety.
The START makes available to academia the microwave technology currently used in the most advanced R&D organic chemistry industrial laboratories. Instructors who want to keep pace with advances in the organic chemistry discipline will find the START labstation a valuable tool to enhance learning with this exciting new technology.
Furthermore, researchers can investigate their reactions in the same instrument that allows up to sixteen students to run their samples simultaneously.
Some key benefits for the academic institutions pioneering the use of microwave-enhanced chemistry in their laboratories:

• Real world techniques. Teach students the skills and technologies that they will need in the professional world, giving them an advantage in the job market. Allow academic researchers to use the same methods as their colleagues in industry.
• Green Chemistry. Microwave-enhanced chemistry uses only a fraction of the solvents used with traditional methods. This leads to reduced costs in purchasing expensive reagents, and in their disposal.
• Rapid results. Microwave technology will permit classroom experiments to be completed faster. Reactions that took most of the lab time (even overnight) can be carried out in minutes, allowing for more experiments, more varied experiments, and more in-depth investigations of reactions.
• No reactor. Normal pressure glass reactor complete with 500 ml flask and reflux condenser
• Heavy duty microwave labstation engineered for the harsh laboratory environment
• Durable all-stainless steel construction for long life under heavy student usage
• Acid/organic solvent resistant cabinet coating
• Built-in magnetic stirrer for temperature homogeneity and increased yields
• IR temperature monitoring for accurate temperature control to ensure reproducibility
• Top opening for easy access to the cavity for introduction of standard glassware

Color touch screen controller with easy to use software

You can create, store and use time-vs.-temperature or time-vs.- power reaction profiles.
Once optimized for a specific reaction, a microwave process profile can be used independent of the number of reactions performed simultaneously.
You draw it... EasyCONTROL does it!

Less time for each reaction = more time for learning

Some of the applications included in the QuickSTART Guide.

SYNTHESIS OF FLUORESCIN

CONDENSATION OF BENZOINE WITH UREA

BIGINELLI REACTION

Less time for experiments = more time for chemistry

QuickSTART Handbook. The Student's Guide

To save time for the instructor in preparing lessons, Milestone's Research Lab has already investigated and thoroughly tested several common organic synthesis reactions. The Quick Start illustrated step-by-step procedures will enable students to carry out preset experiments with the NP reactor or the 16- position rotor.