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ArticleJACS Au2025

A Deep Generative Model for the Inverse Design of Transition Metal Ligands and Complexes.

Magnus Strandgaard, Trond Linjordet, Hannes Kneiding, Arron L Burnage, Ainara Nova, Jan Halborg Jensen, David Balcells

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Article in JACS Au, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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Magnus StrandgaardHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.
Trond LinjordetHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.
Hannes KneidingHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.
Arron L BurnageHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.
Ainara NovaHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3368-7702
Jan Halborg JensenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1465-1010
David BalcellsHylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, Oslo 0315, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3389-0543

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Abstract

Deep generative models yielding transition metal complexes (TMCs) remain scarce despite the key role of these compounds in industrial catalytic processes, anticancer therapies, and the energy transition. Compared to drug discovery within the chemical space of organic molecules, TMCs pose further challenges, including the encoding of chemical bonds of higher complexity and the need to optimize multiple properties. In this work, we developed a generative model for the inverse design of transition metal ligands and complexes, based on the junction tree variational autoencoder (JT-VAE). After implementing a SMILES-based encoding of the metal-ligand bonds, the model was trained with the tmQMg-L ligand library, allowing for the generation of thousands of novel, highly diverse monodentate (κ

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conditional generationdensity functional theoryinverse designmetal ligandSMILEStmQM data setstransition metal complexvariational autoencoder

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