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The most fundamental abstraction underlying all modern computers is the Turing Machine, that is if any modern computer can simulate a Turing Machine, an equivalence which is called Turing completeness, it is theoretically possible to achieve any task that can be algorithmically described by executing a series of discrete unit operations. In chemistry, the ability to program chemical processes is demanding because it is hard to ensure that the process can be understood at a high level of abstraction, and then reduced to practice. Herein we exploit the concept of Turing completeness applied to robotic platforms for chemistry that can be used to synthesise complex molecules through unit operations that execute chemical processes using a chemically-aware programming language, XDL. We leverage the concept of computability by computers to synthesizability of chemical compounds by automated synthesis machines. The results of an interactive demonstration of Turing completeness using the colour gamut and conditional logic are presented and examples of chemical use-cases are discussed. Over 16.7 million combinations of Red, Green, Blue (RGB) colour space were binned into 5 discrete values an

Author

Gahler, Daniel; Thomas, Dean; Lach, Slawomir; Cronin, Leroy

Published

2025

Language

EN