Despite huge potential, automation of synthetic chemistry has only made incremental progress over the past few decades. We present an automatically executable chemical reaction database of 100 molecules representative of the range of reactions found in contemporary organic synthesis. These reactions include transition metal–catalyzed coupling reactions, heterocycle formations, functional group interconversions, and multicomponent reactions. The chemical reaction codes or χDLs for the reactions have been stored in a database for version control, validation, collaboration, and data mining. Of these syntheses, more than 50 entries from the database have been downloaded and robotically run in seven modular ChemPU’s with yields and purities comparable to those achieved by an expert chemist. We also demonstrate the automatic purification of a range of compounds using a chromatography module seamlessly coupled to the platform and programmed with the same language.
尽管潜力巨大,但合成化学的自动化在过去几十年中仅取得了循序渐进的进展。我们介绍了一个可自动执行的化学反应数据库,其中包含 100 个分子,代表了当代有机合成中的各种反应。这些反应包括过渡金属催化的偶联反应、杂环形成、官能团相互转化和多组分反应。这些反应的化学反应代码或 χDLs 已存储在数据库中,用于版本控制、验证、协作和数据挖掘。在这些合成中,我们从数据库中下载了 50 多个条目,并在 7 个模块化 ChemPU 中以机器人方式运行,其产率和纯度可与专家化学家的水平相媲美。我们还演示了使用与平台无缝耦合并使用相同语言编程的色谱模块自动纯化一系列化合物。