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Keywords:

  • Computer-aided organic synthesis;
  • Structure generator;
  • Combinatorial chemistry;
  • Steroids;
  • Diels–Alder

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Abstract

We present WTDWTR (What To Do With This Reaction?), which is a new program in the field of computer-aided organic synthesis. WTDWTR tries to answer the question: what kind of structures can be obtained from a given reaction? We present the results that were obtained for the Diels–Alder reaction of structures that possess four fused rings of size 6, 6, 6 and 5 (“isomers” of the steroidal skeleton) for which WTDWTR generated 590 solutions. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006)