Automatic Generation of 3D-Printed Reactionware for Chemical Synthesis Digitization using ChemSCAD
Wenduan Hou, Andrius Bubliauskas, Philip J. Kitson, Jean‐Patrick Francoïa, Henry powell-Davies, Juan Manuel Parrilla Gutiérrez, Przemysław Frei, J. Sebastián Manzano, Leroy Cronin
Abstract
We describe a system, ChemSCAD, for the creation of digital reactors based on the chemical operations, physical parameters, and synthetic sequence to produce a given target compound, to show that the system can translate the gram-scale batch synthesis of the antiviral compound Ribavirin (yield 43% over three steps), the narcolepsy drug Modafinil (yield 60% over three steps), and both batch and flow instances of the synthesis of the anticancer agent Lomustine (batch yield 65% over two steps) in purities greater than or equal to 96%. The syntheses of compounds developed using the ChemSCAD system, including reactor designs and analytical data, can be stored in a database repository, with the information necessary to critically evaluate and improve upon reactionware syntheses being easily shared and versioned.