Issue 3, 2005
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Chemical Society Reviews

Computer-aided organic synthesis

Matthew H. Todda  

a Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, UK
E-mail: M.H.Todd@qmul.ac.uk

Abstract

It is tempting for those in the field of organic synthesis to liken the process of retrosynthesis to a game of chess. That the world chess champion was recently defeated by a computer leads us to think that perhaps new and powerful computing methods could be applied to synthetic problems. Here the analogy between synthesis and chess is outlined. Achievements in the 35-year history of computer-aided synthetic design are described, followed by some more recent developments.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B104620A
Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
10 Sep 2004
First published
08 Feb 2005

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2005,34, 247-266

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M. H. Todd, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2005, 34, 247 DOI: 10.1039/B104620A

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