| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/C006550/1 |
| Title: |
Extending High Throughput Technologies to Synthetic Route Selection |
| Principal Investigator: |
Wright, Professor AR |
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Chemical Engineering & Advanced Material |
| Organisation: |
Newcastle University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
07 December 2004 |
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06 May 2005 |
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18,650
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The most significant development in chemical and pharmaceutical research in recent years is the extensive implementation of combinatorial techniques using laboratory automation. This has resulted in an exponential growth in the discovery of new chemical compounds and materials. This fundamental change to the discovery methodology in life sciences, speciality chemicals and catalyst industries will require an unprecedented number of new process routes to be evaluated. One large pharmaceutical company recently reported that 85% of the successful chemical syntheses emerging from automated discovery are currently rejected for commercial processes. The reasons for failure are diverse, and include economic viability, difficulties in downstream processing, process safety or environmental impact. As the number of compounds screened in the search for catalysts, chemicals and pharmaceutical actives grows, pressure to reduce this high failure rate is increasing. Funds are sought to establish a multidisciplinary consortium to research and develop enabling technologies, which will remove this significant bottleneck in high-speed process innovation and development by accelerating and reducing the cost of evaluating the large numbers of synthesis alternatives.The broad technical objectives of the full research proposal will be to:? Investigate and extend a number of retrosynthesis, process synthesis, mathematical and optimisation methodologies, evaluated in the context of High Throughput Experimentation, for high speed process development.? Investigate the ranking of feasible synthetic routes (either through multi-criteria decision making or the use of real options theory) to include technical, financial and intellectual property considerations in the decision making process; selection of starting materials; interpretation of the output of the retrosynthetic software; experimental testing under constraints of scale up.? Investigate and extend experimental design methods for process synthesis taking into account the requirements for down stream processing.? Develop a generic software framework for high-speed route selection and validation.
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