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ArticleCommunications chemistry2024

Leveraging infrared spectroscopy for automated structure elucidation.

Marvin Alberts, Teodoro Laino, Alain C Vaucher

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 authors.

Marvin AlbertsIBM Research Europe, Rüschlikon, Switzerland. marvin.alberts@ibm.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-9198-7866
Teodoro LainoIBM Research Europe, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8717-0456
Alain C VaucherIBM Research Europe, Rüschlikon, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7554-0288

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Swiss National Science Foundation) 180544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The application of machine learning models in chemistry has made remarkable strides in recent years. While analytical chemistry has received considerable interest from machine learning practitioners, its adoption into everyday use remains limited. Among the available analytical methods, Infrared (IR) spectroscopy stands out in terms of affordability, simplicity, and accessibility. However, its use has been limited to the identification of a selected few functional groups, as most peaks lie beyond human interpretation. We present a transformer model that enables chemists to leverage the complete information contained within an IR spectrum to directly predict the molecular structure. To cover a large chemical space, we pretrain the model using 634,585 simulated IR spectra and fine-tune it on 3,453 experimental spectra. Our approach achieves a top-1 accuracy of 44.4% and top-10 accuracy of 69.8% on compounds containing 6 to 13 heavy atoms. When solely predicting scaffolds, the model accurately predicts the top-1 scaffold in 84.5% and among the top-10 in 93.0% of cases.

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PMID39550488
PMCPMC11569215

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