Reducing the manual labour associated with chemical synthesis by using continuous-flow reactors that not only make compounds, but also purify them, opens up new avenues to reaction automation and rapid scale-up.
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Seeberger, P. Scavengers in full flow. Nature Chem 1, 258–260 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.267
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