Automated exploration of chemical space finds two new reactions
Synthetic chemists hit on undiscovered reactions by processing data from a high throughput screen of tens of thousands of potential products
Automated data processing has sped up the search for new catalytic reactions in a high throughput screen. With automated analysis, a seemingly minor product from tens of thousands of possibilities can, without that much effort, become a new reaction that occurs in 80% yield, says John Hartwig at the University of California, Berkeley.1