Figure 1.

Chemical robots and coding logic used in this work. Simplified schematics and photographs are shown of the (A) Chemputer Platform with filter module and parallel reactors, and (B) Geneva Wheel Platform. Pump/valve combinations not accounted for in the schematic of the Chemputer are loaded with additional reagent bottles. The GWP schematic shows only a single example of the 10 pumps explicitly. (C) Overview of the structure by which automated syntheses are translated into code. Literature synthesis is broken into a series of abstract steps, to be executed in a certain order, which are then further broken into fundamental commands that can be communicated to the platform via the Chempiler package.