Strem Chemicals, Inc. is an employee-owned company specializing in fine chemicals in

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, United States. It was established in 1964 by Michael Strem, who remains president. While Michael Strem was a graduate student, he spent time in Dr. Irving Wender's laboratory learning to synthesize and use cobalt carbonyl. They discussed setting up a chemical company, which resulted in Strem Chemicals. Later, cobalt carbonyl became Strem Chemical's first commercial product. Strem Chemicals manufactures and markets specialty chemicals of high purity, provides custom synthesis and

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manufacturing services, and supplies about 4,500 specialty products in the area of metals, inorganics,

organometallic Organometallic chemistry is the study of organometallic compounds, chemical compounds containing at least one chemical bond between a carbon atom of an organic molecule and a metal, including alkali, alkaline earth, and transition metals, and so ...

s and nanomaterials. Strem Chemicals supports the American Chemical Society Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry and the

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Award for Pure or Applied Chemistry.http://www.strem.com/uploads/news/documents/stremsponsorsinnovation_awards.pdf

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