Assessing the possibilities of designing a unified multistep continuous flow synthesis platform

• Mrityunjay K. Sharma,
• Roopashri B. Acharya,
• Chinmay A. Shukla and
• Amol A. Kulkarni

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1917–1936, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.166

• ’, in reality, such an envisaged system would be much more complex than these examples. Keywords: automation; continuous flow synthesis; cybernetics; multistep flow synthesis; unified platforms; Review Introduction Flow chemistry is now seen as a reliable approach for the synthesis of simple organic

• integrated into any commercial separation and analytical system. This approach is analogous to cybernetics [67]. Table 7 shows the process components required and the sequence of unit operations for producing various pharmaceutical products using approach 3. These unit modules can be connected in the desired