R-matrices operating with

Our previous studies in developing CICLOPS, the prototype of a synthetic design program, have now led to a new stage. 

We are now presenting EROS (Elaboration of Reactions for Organic Synthesis) which has matured to the point of becoming a routine tool for the synthetic chemist. 

A number of options allows the user to direct the program to meet his specific problems and needs. 

Rather than taking the complete set of all mathematically possible reaction matrices a selection of only three R-matrices is contained in the program. These three R-categories include the majority of all known synthetic reactions and it is believed that most of the reactions which will be discovered in the future will also fall in these three R-categories. So the advantages of the 

ACS Symposium Series American Chemical Society Washington, DC, 1977. 

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