Route design in the 21st century: The IC SYNTH software tool as an idea generator for synthesis prediction

Organic Process Research and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 357-368

  Bøgevig, Anders ^b   Federsel, Hans Jürgen ^a   Huerta, Fernando ^b   Hutchings, Michael G ^c   Kraut, Hans ^c   Langer, Thomas ^a   Löw, Peter ^c   Oppawsky, Christoph ^c   Rein, Tobias ^b   Saller, Heinz ^c  

^a ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^b Chemnotia AB ^*  (Sweden)

^c InfoChem GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED SYNTHESIS; DRUG RESEARCH; LITERATURE DATA; ROUTE DESIGN;

DESIGN;

EID: 84923323520     PISSN: 10836160     EISSN: 1520586X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/op500373e     Document Type: Article

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