High throughput solid phase chemical synthesis utilizing thin cylindrical reaction vessels useable for biological assay
First Claim
1. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, using one or more reaction stages, resulting in a plurality of final products and employing identifying indicia to represent specific reactions and reagents utilized during said one or more reaction stages, said method comprising:
- reading said identifying indicia provided for each of a plurality of tubular reaction vessels,reacting a reagent with said reactive material by flowing a reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions, wherein said reacting is driven to completion within the reactive material by said flowing of reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels without agitation of said reactive material;
recording information concerning said reaction conditions and reagents, said information corresponding to said identifying indicia; and
repeating said reading and said reacting at least once using a different reagent, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within said tubular reaction vessels.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A high throughput chemical synthesis system utilizing cylindrical reaction vessels is disclosed. Reaction vessels are utilized which include a tubular member adapted for placement of electronically readable identifying indicia thereon. The identifying indicia are representative of reaction conditions within the tubular member and of one or more reagents utilized in a reaction within the tubular members. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material within a plurality of reaction vessels using a plurality of reaction stages resulting in final products and employing identifying indicia representing the reaction stages is also disclosed. The method includes reading the identifying indicia located on the reaction vessels, reacting one or more reagents within the reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions which may be determined by reading the identifying indicia, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within the reaction vessels. The method allows chemical synthesis to occur according to a predetermined set of reactions and also allows for combinatorial chemistry to be performed utilizing random mix and split techniques. The final synthesized products may be tested for chemical or biological activity. The chemical structures of desired end products may be obtained by reading recorded information wherein the reaction conditions and reagents of reaction steps have been recorded, preferably in conjunction with the identifying indicia.
113 Citations
78 Claims
-
1. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, using one or more reaction stages, resulting in a plurality of final products and employing identifying indicia to represent specific reactions and reagents utilized during said one or more reaction stages, said method comprising:
-
reading said identifying indicia provided for each of a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, reacting a reagent with said reactive material by flowing a reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions, wherein said reacting is driven to completion within the reactive material by said flowing of reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels without agitation of said reactive material; recording information concerning said reaction conditions and reagents, said information corresponding to said identifying indicia; and repeating said reading and said reacting at least once using a different reagent, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within said tubular reaction vessels. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
-
-
9. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, using one or more reaction stages, resulting in a plurality of final products and employing identifying indicia to represent specific reactions and reagents utilized during said one or more reaction stages, said method comprising:
-
reading said identifying indicia provided for each of a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, reacting a reagent with said reactive material by flowing a reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions; recording information concerning said reaction conditions and reagents, said information corresponding to said identifying indicia; repeating said reading and said reacting at least once, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within said tubular reaction vessels; and wherein said tubular reaction vessel comprises a central rod axially oriented therein, said central rod being coated with said reactive material. - View Dependent Claims (10)
-
-
11. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, using one or more reaction stages, resulting in a plurality of final products and employing identifying indicia to represent specific reactions and reagents utilized during said one or more reaction stages, said method comprising:
-
reading said identifying indicia provided for each of a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, reacting a reagent with said reactive material by flowing a reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions;
recording information concerning said reaction conditions and reagents, said information corresponding to said identifying indicia;repeating said reading and said reacting at least once, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within said tubular reaction vessels; wherein said tubular reaction vessels are insertable into a reaction chamber, and wherein said reacting is performed within said reaction chamber; and removing said tubular reaction vessels from said reaction chamber and sorting said tubular reaction vessels by reading said identifying indicia thereon. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
-
-
18. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels, using one or more reaction stages, resulting in a plurality of final products and employing identifying indicia to represent specific reactions and reagents utilized during said one or more reaction stages, said method comprising:
-
reading said identifying indicia provided for each of a plurality of tubular reaction vessels; reacting a reagent with said reactive material by flowing a reagent-containing solution through said tubular reaction vessels under particular reaction conditions; recording information concerning said reaction conditions and reagents, said information corresponding to said identifying indicia; repeating said reading and said reacting at least once, thereby synthesizing chemical compounds within said tubular reaction vessels; and removing said tubular reaction vessels from said reaction chamber and randomly sorting said tubular reaction vessels into at least a first and second group. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
-
-
23. A chemical synthesis reaction vessel for performing combinatorial chemistry within a solid phase reactive material, said reaction vessel comprising:
-
a tubular member, said tubular member allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough and having electronically readable identifying indicia thereon, said identifying indicia representing reaction conditions which have occurred or which will occur within said tubular member and representing reagents reacted or to be reacted within said tubular member; and wherein said solid phase reactive material is disposed within said tubular member such that axial flow of reagent-containing solution through said tubular member causes the reagent-containing solution to be in communication with all of said reactive material and allows reactions to be driven to completion within the reactive material without agitation of the reactive material. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33)
-
-
32. A chemical synthesis reaction vessel for performing combinatorial chemistry comprising:
-
a tubular member, said tubular member allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough and having electronically readable identifying indicia thereon, said identifying indicia representing reaction conditions which have occurred or which will occur within said tubular member and representing reagents reacted or to be reacted within said tubular member; a solid phase reactive material disposed within said tubular member to allow for axial flow of reagent-containing solution through said tubular member in communication with said reactive material; and an elongate rod coaxially oriented within said tubular member, said elongate rod being coated with said reactive material.
-
-
34. An apparatus for performing chemical synthesis by performing a series of reactions on solid phase reactive material comprising:
-
a plurality of tubular reaction vessels having electronically readable identifying indicia disposed thereon, said tubular reaction vessels containing a solid phase reactive material therein and allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough, wherein said solid phase reactive material is disposed within each tubular reaction vessel such that flow of reagent-containing solution therethrough causes the reagent-containing solution to be in communication with all of said reactive material and allows reactions to be driven to completion within the reactive material without agitation of the solid phase reactive material; and one or more reaction chambers for receiving said tubular reaction vessels therein, each of said reaction chambers having an inlet disposed to allow said reagent-containing solution to flow into said reaction chamber and axially through said tubular reaction vessels disposed therein. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38)
-
-
39. An apparatus for performing chemical synthesis by performing a series of reactions on solid phase reactive material comprising:
-
a plurality of tubular reaction vessels having electronically readable identifying indicia disposed thereon, said tubular reaction vessels containing a solid phase reactive material therein and allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough; one or more reaction chambers for receiving said tubular reaction vessels therein, each of said reaction chambers having an inlet disposed to allow said reagent-containing solution to flow into said reaction chamber and axially through said tubular reaction vessels disposed therein; one or more guide arrays insertable into said one or more reaction chambers, each guide array receiving said tubular reaction vessels therein; and wherein said inlet is located within a first reaction chamber cover. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42)
-
-
43. An apparatus for performing chemical synthesis by performing a series of reactions on solid phase reactive material comprising:
-
a plurality of tubular reaction vessels having electronically readable identifying indicia disposed thereon, said tubular reaction vessels containing a solid phase reactive material therein and allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough; one or more reaction chambers for receiving said tubular reaction vessels therein, each of said reaction chambers having an inlet disposed to allow said reagent-containing solution to flow into said reaction chamber and axially through said tubular reaction vessels disposed therein; and wherein said one or more reaction chambers are in fluid flow relationship to an array valve, said array valve being in fluid flow relationship with a plurality of reservoirs wherein said array valve distributes reagents from said reservoirs to the one or more reaction chambers. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
-
-
55. A method of chemically synthesizing compounds for direct delivery to a biological assay comprising:
-
performing a series of reaction steps on a solid phase reactive material contained within a plurality of tubular reaction vessels having identifying indicia thereon, one or more of said reaction steps being performed using reactive agents and under conditions which may be determined by electronically reading said identifying indicia; sorting said tubular reaction vessels into an array based upon the identifying indicia; and transferring synthesized biological compounds from within said array of vessels into an assay plate. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
-
-
65. A method of performing chemical synthesis on solid phase reactive material within a plurality of reaction vessels, said method comprising:
-
separating tubular reaction vessels into a plurality of groups and inserting each group into a different reaction chamber, said tubular reaction vessels allowing reagent-containing solution to flow therethrough and having said reactive material therein; reacting a reagent with said reactive material within one or more of said groups of tubular reaction vessels by flowing said reagent through said reaction chambers; recording data, said data being representative of reaction conditions and reagents within a tubular reaction vessel during said reacting step and being recorded in conjunction with information about the location of the reaction vessel in a particular chamber; and repeating said separating, reacting and recording steps at least once. - View Dependent Claims (66, 67, 68)
-
-
69. A method of identifying synthesized compounds having a desired biological or chemical activity, said compounds having been synthesized during multiple reaction stages on solid phase reactive material contained within reaction vessels, said method comprising:
-
transferring synthesized compounds from said reaction vessels to a testing medium, said reaction vessels being tubular in shape and comprising electronically readable identifying indicia thereon representing reaction conditions which have occurred within said tubular reaction vessels; testing for a desired biological or chemical activity the synthesized compounds transferred from said reaction vessels to said testing medium; and electronically reading the identifying indicia on the reaction vessel wherein was synthesized a compound having said desired biological or chemical activity. - View Dependent Claims (70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78)
-
Specification