Design -- optimize -- synthesize: New synthetic capabilities offered by a flow microreactor

Every day, scientists working in drug discovery and development are offered new tools, techniques and approaches as the answer to their need to improve productivity and performance. Incremental enhancements to existing methods can be helpful, but the emergence of a new technology is often the solution to a seemingly intractable problem. A radically new way of approaching the task can make a breakthrough in performance that cannot be achieved by evolutionary change to existing methods.