Running multiple experiments simultaneously on an array of chemical reactors

A chemical reaction control system for executing multiple chemical experiments in parallel on an array of chemical reactors, the chemical reaction control system comprising:

• a receiving means adapted for receiving a list of actions to be performed for synthesizing a chemical product, wherein the list of actions corresponds to at least two chemical partial reactions, wherein the list comprises a delimiter symbol separating each two chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
• a determining means adapted for determining identical chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
• a building means adapted for building a reaction commonality tree of the chemical partial reactions according to subsequent points in time in the list of actions;
• a first controlling means adapted for controlling an executing a plurality of the identical chemical partial reactions independent of a sequence of chemical partial reactions of the reaction commonality tree only once, wherein each of the plurality of identical chemical partial reactions is executed in a different rector of the array of chemical reactors, wherein each resulting intermediate product has a quantity required by at least a sum of the related identical chemical partial reactions;
• a storage means adapted for storing each complete quantity of identical related intermediate chemical products in a separate container;
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• a second controlling means adapted for controlling an executing of non-identical chemical partial reactions according to the reaction commonality tree, thereby using at least in parts the stored intermediate chemical products.

A computer program product for executing multiple chemical experiments in parallel on an array of chemical reactors, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer-readable tangible storage medium and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more tangible storage medium, the program instructions executable by a processor, the program instructions being executable to:
• receive a list of actions to be performed for synthesizing a chemical product, wherein the list of actions corresponds to at least two chemical partial reactions, wherein the list comprises a delimiter symbol separating each two chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
• determine identical chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
• build a reaction commonality tree of the chemical partial reactions according to subsequent points in time in the list of actions;
• control an execution of a plurality of the identical chemical partial reactions independent of a sequence of chemical partial reactions of the reaction commonality tree only once, wherein each of the plurality of identical chemical partial reactions is executed in a different reactor of the array of chemical reactors, wherein each resulting intermediate product has a quantity required by at least a sum of related identical chemical partial reactions, and storing each complete quantity of identical related intermediate chemical products in a separate container;
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• control an execution of non identical chemical partial reactions according to the reaction commonality tree, whereby the stored chemical intermediates are at least partially used.