title: Towards dial-a-molecule by integrating continuous flow, analytics and self-optimisation.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. Victor.sanssangorrin@nottingham.ac.uk.
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