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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Utopia Point Bayesian Optimization Finds Condition-Dependent Selectivity for

Derek M Dalton, Richard C Walroth, Caroline Rouget-Virbel, Kyle A Mack, F Dean Toste

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Considerations in Pursuing Reaction Scope Generality.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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Derek M DaltonDepartment of Synthetic Molecule Process Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.ORCID 0009-0006-2247-8218
Richard C WalrothDepartment of Synthetic Molecule Process Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.
Caroline Rouget-VirbelDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Kyle A MackDepartment of Synthetic Molecule Process Chemistry, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, California 94080, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4986-4040
F Dean TosteDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8018-2198

Funding

Methods for Selective Organic Synthesis based on Ionic CatalystsR35GM118190 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI F. Dean Toste · 2016 to 2026
$6.7M
Acquisition of a Cryoprobe and Related Accessories for a 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer to Support Health Research Activities at the University of California, BerkeleyS10OD024998 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI HARTWIG, JOHN F · 2018 to 2018
$265k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118190NIH HHS S10 OD024998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Utopia Point Bayesian Optimization (UPBO) was used to identify reaction conditions that are highly selective for the formation of N1 and N2-methyl-3-aryl pyrazole constitutional isomers. UPBO was used to explore a wide chemical space and identify basic reaction conditions for a typically acid-catalyzed Knorr pyrazole condensation. These studies revealed that selectivity in the reaction stems from a condition-dependent equilibrium of intermediates prior to dehydration. For the N2-methyl isomer reaction pathway, a hemiaminal intermediate was found to form reversibly under the reaction conditions, enabling a highly selective synthesis of the N2 isomer upon dehydrative workup. UPBO was able to successfully optimize conversion and selectivity simultaneously with search spaces of >1 million potential variable combinations without the need for high-performance computational resources.

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