The Sumitomo Chemical Company has begun a long-term project to build a program that proposes synthetic routes for organic chemicals. Preliminary results from the program indicate that the interactive method is feasible and preferable because of the superior speed of the computer in decision making. The routes proposed are generally quite reasonable; the efficacy of the program is limited by the fact that there are only about 2000 reactions in this early version.

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