Automated Flow-Through Synthesis of Heterocyclic Thioethers

The fully automated, sequential flow-through synthesis of a 44-member array of thioethers 10[1-4,1-11] employing a resin "capture and release" reactor column is described. The array incorporates four different heterocyclic scaffolds, and the synthesis was performed using a custom-built robotic synthesizer that is able to (i) load and regenerate the reactor column and (ii) array each product into a single vial using UV threshold detection. All the compounds were obtained in high yield (>75%) and excellent purity (>95%) without the need for further purification.