Prediction of Organic Homolytic Bond Dissociation Enthalpies at Near Chemical Accuracy with Sub-second Computational Cost

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2020 May 13

PMID 32393773

Citations 57

Authors

Peter C St John

Yanfei Guan

Yeonjoon Kim

Seonah Kim

Robert S Paton

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Abstract

Bond dissociation enthalpies (BDEs) of organic molecules play a fundamental role in determining chemical reactivity and selectivity. However, BDE computations at sufficiently high levels of quantum mechanical theory require substantial computing resources. In this paper, we develop a machine learning model capable of accurately predicting BDEs for organic molecules in a fraction of a second. We perform automated density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the M06-2X/def2-TZVP level of theory for 42,577 small organic molecules, resulting in 290,664 BDEs. A graph neural network trained on a subset of these results achieves a mean absolute error of 0.58 kcal mol (vs DFT) for BDEs of unseen molecules. We further demonstrate the model on two applications: first, we rapidly and accurately predict major sites of hydrogen abstraction in the metabolism of drug-like molecules, and second, we determine the dominant molecular fragmentation pathways during soot formation.

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