Multi component reactions (MCRs) can build complex scaffolds from multiple starting materials in just one step without purification of intermediates but until now MCRs have been discovered rather than designed. Here, the authors demonstrate an algorithmic approach based in the knowledge of reaction mechanisms and rules of physical-organic chemistry to design autonomously MCRs in large numbers.
- Rafał Roszak
- Louis Gadina
- Bartosz A. Grzybowski
