Computer-guided retrosynthesis
Machine learning-based systems hope to outperform expert-guided reaction planning technology, finds Andy Extance When IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, few chemists must have realised that this might signify a win for them too. But Bartosz Grzybowski did. Then a PhD student at Harvard University in the US, outside chemistry he plays the card game bridge avidly. Grzybowski’s opponents were interested in algorithms like Deep Blue’s. ‘I started...
Source: chemistryworld.com