When machine learning meets molecular synthesis

JCA Oliveira, J Frey, SQ Zhang, LC Xu, X Li, SW Li… - Trends in Chemistry, 2022 - cell.com
The recent synergy of machine learning (ML) with molecular synthesis has emerged as an
increasingly powerful platform in organic synthesis and catalysis. This merger has set the …

Bridging chemical knowledge and machine learning for performance prediction of organic synthesis

SQ Zhang, LC Xu, SW Li, JCA Oliveira… - … A European Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have witnessed a boom of machine learning (ML) applications in chemistry,
which reveals the potential of data‐driven prediction of synthesis performance. Digitalization …

Data-driven design of new chiral carboxylic acid for construction of indoles with C-central and C–N axial chirality via cobalt catalysis

ZJ Zhang, SW Li, JCA Oliveira, Y Li, X Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Challenging enantio-and diastereoselective cobalt-catalyzed C–H alkylation has been
realized by an innovative data-driven knowledge transfer strategy. Harnessing the statistics …

Enantioselectivity prediction of pallada-electrocatalysed C–H activation using transition state knowledge in machine learning

LC Xu, J Frey, X Hou, SQ Zhang, YY Li, JCA Oliveira… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enantioselectivity prediction in asymmetric catalysis has been a long-standing challenge in
synthetic chemistry because of the high-dimensional nature of the structure …

Mechanistic Inference from Statistical Models at Different Data-Size Regimes

DM Lustosa, A Milo - ACS Catalysis, 2022 - ACS Publications
The chemical sciences are witnessing an influx of statistics into the catalysis literature.
These developments are propelled by modern technological advancements that are leading …

Genetic optimization of homogeneous catalysts

R Laplaza, S Gallarati, C Corminboeuf - Chemistry‐Methods, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present the NaviCatGA package, a versatile genetic algorithm capable of optimizing
molecular catalyst structures using well‐suited fitness functions to achieve a set of targeted …

An Ensemble Structure and Physicochemical (SPOC) Descriptor for Machine‐Learning Prediction of Chemical Reaction and Molecular Properties

Q Yang, Y Liu, J Cheng, Y Li, S Liu, Y Duan… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Feature representations, or descriptors, are machines' chemical language that largely
shapes the prediction capability, generalizability and interpretability of machine learning …

Machine-learning-guided prediction of Cu-based electrocatalysts towards ethylene production in CO2 reduction

Q Zhang, K Zhu, Y Luo, Z Bai, Z Zhang, J Li - Molecular Catalysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Cu-based materials are the most commonly used electrocatalysts for CO 2 reduction to
ethylene. The selectivity of copper-based catalysts is affected by many complicated and …

A machine learning model for predicting enantioselectivity in hypervalent iodine (iii) catalyzed asymmetric phenolic dearomatizations

B Gao, L Cai, Y Zhang, H Huang, Y Li… - CCS Chemistry, 2024 - chinesechemsoc.org
Catalytic asymmetric dearomatization (CADA) of phenols has emerged as a powerful
strategy for constructing stereochemically complicated architectures from planar aromatic …

Genetic algorithms for the discovery of homogeneous catalysts

S Gallarati, P Van Gerwen, AA Schoepfer, R Laplaza… - Chimia, 2023 - chimia.ch
In this account, we discuss the use of genetic algorithms in the inverse design process of
homogeneous catalysts for chemical transformations. We describe the main components of …