3. Towards dial-a-molecule by integrating continuous flow, analytics and self-optimisation

Victor Sans, Leroy Cronin, Chemical Society Reviews, (2016), 45, 2032-2043 DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00793C

The employment of continuous-flow platforms for synthetic chemistry is becoming increasingly popular in research and industrial environments. Integrating analytics in-line enables obtaining a large amount of information in real-time about the reaction progress, catalytic activity and stability, etc. Furthermore, it is possible to influence the reaction progress and selectivity via manual or automated feedback optimisation, thus constituting a dial-a-molecule approach employing digital synthesis. This contribution gives an overview of the most significant contributions in the field to date.