Issue 3, 2023

Quantum chemical data generation as fill-in for reliability enhancement of machine-learning reaction and retrosynthesis planning

Abstract

Data-driven synthesis planning has seen remarkable successes in recent years by virtue of modern approaches of artificial intelligence that efficiently exploit vast databases with experimental data on chemical reactions. However, this success story is intimately connected to the availability of existing experimental data. It may well occur in retrosynthetic and synthesis design tasks that predictions in individual steps of a reaction cascade are affected by large uncertainties. In such cases, it will, in general, not be easily possible to provide missing data from autonomously conducted experiments on demand. However, first-principles calculations can, in principle, provide missing data to enhance the confidence of an individual prediction or for model retraining. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of such an ansatz and examine resource requirements for conducting autonomous first-principles calculations on demand.

Graphical abstract: Quantum chemical data generation as fill-in for reliability enhancement of machine-learning reaction and retrosynthesis planning

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 Jan 2023
Accepted
09 Mar 2023
First published
10 Mar 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Digital Discovery, 2023,2, 663-673

Quantum chemical data generation as fill-in for reliability enhancement of machine-learning reaction and retrosynthesis planning

A. Toniato, J. P. Unsleber, A. C. Vaucher, T. Weymuth, D. Probst, T. Laino and M. Reiher, Digital Discovery, 2023, 2, 663 DOI: 10.1039/D3DD00006K

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