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ArticleChemical science2020

Regio-selectivity prediction with a machine-learned reaction representation and on-the-fly quantum mechanical descriptors.

Yanfei Guan, Connor W Coley, Haoyang Wu, Duminda Ranasinghe, Esther Heid, Thomas J Struble, Lagnajit Pattanaik, William H Green, Klavs F Jensen

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Article in Chemical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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Yanfei GuanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1817-0190
Connor W ColeyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-8723
Haoyang WuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.
Duminda RanasingheDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.
Esther HeidDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8404-6596
Thomas J StrubleDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1695-2367
Lagnajit PattanaikDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-6698
William H GreenDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2603-9694
Klavs F JensenDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 USA whgreen@mit.edu kfjensen@mit.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-580X

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Abstract

Accurate and rapid evaluation of whether substrates can undergo the desired the transformation is crucial and challenging for both human knowledge and computer predictions. Despite the potential of machine learning in predicting chemical reactivity such as selectivity, popular feature engineering and learning methods are either time-consuming or data-hungry. We introduce a new method that combines machine-learned reaction representation with selected quantum mechanical descriptors to predict regio-selectivity in general substitution reactions. We construct a reactivity descriptor database based on

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