Disclosed herein is a microfluidics device that can be used to prepare
natural products and their analogs. The device comprises the enzymes of a
biosynthetic pathway immobilized thereon and a means for sequentially
directing a starting material and each ensuing reaction product to the
enzymes of the biosynthetic pathway in the order corresponding to the
steps of the biosynthetic pathway. The device can thus be used to prepare
the natural product using the natural starting material of the
biosynthetic pathway or analogs of the natural product using an unnatural
starting material. Alternatively, artificial pathways can be created by
immobilizing an appropriate selection of enzymes on the device in an
order whereby each subsequent enzyme can catalyze a reaction with the
product of the prior enzyme. Novel chemical entities can be prepared from
these artificial pathways.