2019
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911062
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Artificial‐Intelligence‐Driven Organic Synthesis—En Route towards Autonomous Synthesis?

Abstract: AI for chemistry: Automated synthesis can now be performed using an artificial intelligence algorithm to propose the synthetic route and a robotic microfluidic platform to execute the synthesis. This Highlight describes this approach towards small‐molecule synthesis and reflects on the significance of this milestone in chemistry.

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“…We expect that the recent advances in AI to make a significant impact in this area of fragment sociability and growth vector elaboration in the near future. 86,87 Conclusions FBDD is a key hit-finding technology for drug discovery and has enabled the discovery of several approved drugs. However, as the field of FBDD has developed over the past 20 years it has revealed the need for further development in the field of organic synthesis to successfully functionalise specific growth vectors of polar, unprotected small molecules using medicinal chemistry relevant transformations.…”
Section: Rsc Medicinal Chemistry Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We expect that the recent advances in AI to make a significant impact in this area of fragment sociability and growth vector elaboration in the near future. 86,87 Conclusions FBDD is a key hit-finding technology for drug discovery and has enabled the discovery of several approved drugs. However, as the field of FBDD has developed over the past 20 years it has revealed the need for further development in the field of organic synthesis to successfully functionalise specific growth vectors of polar, unprotected small molecules using medicinal chemistry relevant transformations.…”
Section: Rsc Medicinal Chemistry Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As an example, the SPiDER software uses self-organising maps to predict drug equivalence relationships [152]. Numerous other techniques including SVMs, RFs and NNs have been used for virtual screening of hit compounds [153]; similarly, AI techniques have proved useful in predicting the ensuing best synthetic routes [154,155] or enantiomeric excess [156].…”
Section: Further Issuesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the recent literature on flow synthesis, there were certain suggestions of how to diversify different flow synthesis systems, i.e., by differentiating between "automated" and "autonomous" flow synthesis systems [296]. As can be read, automated systems require human input to determine the boundaries of operating parameters, thresholds, and protocols, while autonomous flow synthesis systems can react to output parameters of the system such as, e.g., reaction yield or purity of the obtained products without human input.…”
Section: Toward the Automation Of Chemical Flow Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although, in a very recent paper [296], one can learn that "future advances may include the hyphenation of online reactor analytics that would allow a read-out of the reaction progress to alter the reaction parameters using feedback algorithms", and that it can be achieved in the upcoming years, some examples of this approach can already be found in the literature on flow synthesis. For instance, in the designed microfluidic platform for multidimensional screening, chemical reactions were evaluated employing multiple variables [320].…”
Section: Automated Flow Analytical and Synthetic Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%