Self-driving laboratories for chemistry and materials science

G Tom, SP Schmid, SG Baird, Y Cao, K Darvish… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

Exploring catalytic reaction networks with machine learning

JT Margraf, H Jung, C Scheurer, K Reuter - Nature Catalysis, 2023 - nature.com
Chemical reaction networks form the heart of microkinetic models, which are one of the key
tools available for gaining detailed mechanistic insight into heterogeneous catalytic …

Chemical reaction networks and opportunities for machine learning

M Wen, EWC Spotte-Smith, SM Blau… - Nature Computational …, 2023 - nature.com
Chemical reaction networks (CRNs), defined by sets of species and possible reactions
between them, are widely used to interrogate chemical systems. To capture increasingly …

Autonomous discovery in the chemical sciences part I: Progress

CW Coley, NS Eyke, KF Jensen - … Chemie International Edition, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This two‐part Review examines how automation has contributed to different aspects of
discovery in the chemical sciences. In this first part, we describe a classification for …

Machine learning in chemical reaction space

S Stocker, G Csanyi, K Reuter, JT Margraf - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Chemical compound space refers to the vast set of all possible chemical compounds,
estimated to contain 1060 molecules. While intractable as a whole, modern machine …

Exploration of reaction pathways and chemical transformation networks

GN Simm, AC Vaucher, M Reiher - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
For the investigation of chemical reaction networks, the identification of all relevant
intermediates and elementary reactions is mandatory. Many algorithmic approaches exist …

Design and optimization of catalysts based on mechanistic insights derived from quantum chemical reaction modeling

S Ahn, M Hong, M Sundararajan, DH Ess… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Until recently, computational tools were mainly used to explain chemical reactions after
experimental results were obtained. With the rapid development of software and hardware …

The exploration of chemical reaction networks

JP Unsleber, M Reiher - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Modern computational chemistry has reached a stage at which massive exploration into
chemical reaction space with unprecedented resolution with respect to the number of …

autodE: automated calculation of reaction energy profiles—application to organic and organometallic reactions

TA Young, JJ Silcock, AJ Sterling… - Angewandte Chemie, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Calculating reaction energy profiles to aid in mechanistic elucidation has long been the
domain of the expert computational chemist. Here, we introduce autodE (https://github …

KinBot: Automated stationary point search on potential energy surfaces

R Van de Vijver, J Zádor - Computer Physics Communications, 2020 - Elsevier
KinBot is a Python code that automatically characterizes kinetically important stationary
points on reactive potential energy surfaces and arranges the results into a form that lends …