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automation to the setup, execution, workup, and purication of
organic reactions, using a compact, user-friendly setup. We
envision instruments such as the ones described here will serve
as standardized platforms upon which automated chemistry
will be developed. To make an analogy, the console serves as the
computer and operating system while the capsules are the
applications. Organic chemists will become the developers who
package their methods into integrated, user-friendly packages
that can be used immediately in a safe and convenient fashion.
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Author contributions
J. W. B., B. M. W., and P. L. N. conceived of the idea. B. M. W.
built the console and designed the soware. T. J., K.-Y. C.
implemented and developed the SnAP capsules. S. B. developed
the reductive amination. A. E. M. optimized and performed
multi-step reactions. F. S. designed and synthesized the iSnAP
reagent. All authors contributed to data acquisition and anal-
ysis. J. W. B, B. M. W., A. E. M and P. L. N. wrote the manuscript.
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Conflicts of interest
This technology was developed with the support of funding
from the Swiss Commission for Technology Innovation, the
ETH Pioneer Fellowships, and the European Research Council
and licensed to the ETH spinoff company Synple Chem AG.
B. M. W., P. L. N., K.-Y. C. and J. W. B. are listed as inventors of
a patent (WO Pat., WO2017121724A1, 2016) related to this
technology. B. M. W., P. L. N., T. J. and J. W. B. are co-founders
of Synple Chem AG.
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Acknowledgements
Financial support was provided by the European Research
Council (ERC-2012-StG_20111012 – Starting Grant; ERC-2015-
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PoC – Hetspresso), ETH Zurich Pioneer Fellowship and Inno-
suisse (27406.1 PFLS-LS). We thank the LOC MS Service for
analysis and the LOC machine shop (Christoph Bartschi) for
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engineering support, Vijay Pattabiraman for resin evaluation
and project students who contributed to this work (Oliver Gro-
ninger, Leran Zhang, Konrad Leopold and Ralph Werner). X-ray
services were provided by SMoCC – The Small Molecule Crys-
tallography Center of ETH Zurich (www.smocc.ethz.ch).
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