| abstract |
An automatic apparatus for synthesis of organic molecules, in accordance with combinative or parallel synthesis protocols. The apparatus comprises: several synthesis modules including each five reactors temperature-controlled by heating and cooling elements, a container forming a secondary mixing chamber whose capacity corresponds to at least the sum of capacities of the reactors of a module, being associated with each module and an additional container, forming a main mixing chamber whose capacity corresponds to at least the sum of capacities of the various secondary mixing chambers, and at least a circuit for transferring the contents of the reactors to one or more containers or reactors, and at least a supply or discharge circuit connected to the different inlets/outlets of the reactors and of the containers and, finally, a ramified system for managing and controlling the flow and distribution of fluids in the circuits and the temperature and stirring in the chambers. |