A concise, richly illustrated overview introduces the technologies, application options and customer services being offered. Chiral intermediates are used effectively in the life science industry above all, particularly in medical drugs and crop protection. The brand name ChiPros represents BASF’s broad range of chiral amines, alcohols, and acids. Exactly 10 years ago, the company produced a chiral 1-phenylethylamine for the first time by a new, biocatalytic process. Ever since, it has been expanding its set of “ChiPros building blocks”. The major market for these products is the life-science industry, which uses them in complex processes to make new pharmaceuticals or crop protectants. The advantage of these structurally pure substances is that they make the products more efficient.