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The development of new synthetic routes to chemicals of value is a crucial industrial task. It requires an understanding of the underlying chemistry, but, where the proposed synthesis consist of many individual steps, there is also a combinatorial difficulty to be solved. This paper discusses the use of a modified ant system algorithm to tackle the synthetic design problem.
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Cartwright, H.M., Hopkins, J.A. (1996). Evolutionary design of synthetic routes in chemistry. In: Fogarty, T.C. (eds) Evolutionary Computing. AISB EC 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0032770
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