Catalyst: Curtailing the scalable supply of fentanyl by using chemical AI

Abstract

The authors are organic chemists and AI specialists who have worked on the development of chemical AI for over a decade now and brought to the public synthesis-design platforms such as Chematica (now Synthia) and Allchemy. Barbara and Tomasz are originally synthetic-organic chemists and Bartosz's former graduate students at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Wiktor and Martyna are chemical AI specialists at Allchemy. All four are recipients of numerous student and doctoral prizes in Poland. Bartosz is a distinguished professor of chemistry at UNIST and director of the IBS Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis in Ulsan, South Korea. He has received several awards, of which the 2016 Feynman Prize and the 2022 Foundation for Polish Science Prize are closest to his heart. As a member of the scientific advisory board of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, he analyzes the ways in which AI could limit the proliferation of chemical weapons.