How to enumerate a compound library

Choose Insert › Enumerate a library, pick a named reaction such as Amide coupling or draw one, list the building blocks one per line as a name and SMILES, and press Enumerate.

Steps

  1. Choose Main menu › Insert › Enumerate a library.

  2. Pick a named reaction for Step 1, such as Amide coupling, or draw a reaction with R1, R2 on its reactants and its atoms numbered.

  3. List the building blocks, one per line, as a name and a SMILES, for example Acetic acid, CC(=O)O.

    Enumerate a library: an amide coupling of 3 acids and 4 amines, 12 combinations.Enumerate a library: an amide coupling of 3 acids and 4 amines, 12 combinations.

  4. Add a step to react the products of an earlier step again.

  5. The window counts the combinations, up to 2,000. Press Enumerate to run it.

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Last updated Nov 12, 2026