Designing Chemical Reaction Arrays Using Phactor and ChatGPT
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High throughput experimentation (HTE) is a common practice in the pharmaceutical industry. Medicinal chemists design reaction arrays to optimize the yield of couplings between building blocks and/or pharmacophores. Popular reactions attempted by medicinal chemists include the amide coupling, Suzuki coupling, and Buchwald-Hartwig coupling. We show how the artificial intelligence (AI) language model ChatGPT can automatically formulate reaction arrays for these common reactions based on the literature corpus it was trained on. Furthermore, we showcase how ChatGPT results can be directly translated into inputs for the HTE management software phactor, which enables automated execution and analysis of assays. This workflow is experimentally demonstrated.
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- Authors
- Mahjour, B., Hoffstadt, J., & Cernak, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cernak, Tim
- Venue
- Organic Process Research & Development
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2023-08-01
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1510-1516
- ISSN
- 1083-6160 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-586X
- OpenAlex
- W4385443313
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 6
- FWCI
- 3.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Organic Process Research & Development (publishedVersion)
- ChemRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Funders
- Division of Chemistry (CHE-2236215)
- American Chemical Society
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Keywords
- ChatGPT, high-throughput experimentation, amide coupling, Suzuki coupling, Buchwald-Hartwig amination
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