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Sharing reproducible synthesis recipes

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Collaboration between synthesis laboratories requires procedures that are reproducible despite differences in equipment. Now, a digital standard for automated chemical synthesis reproduces results between distinct laboratory systems almost half a world apart.

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Fig. 1: Git flows for the three case studies reported in the paper.

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Canty, R.B., Jensen, K.F. Sharing reproducible synthesis recipes. Nat. Synth 3, 428–429 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00478-1

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