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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND MODELING
卷 61, 期 9, 页码 4342-4356出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.1c00375
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- Royal Society
- Leverhulme Trust
- Leverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Design
- European Research Council under FP7 (CoMMaD, ERC Grant) [758370]
The computational discovery of new materials is hindered by the difficulty in transitioning from prediction to synthesis. By considering the ease of synthesis of material precursors, a model was developed to bias towards precursors that are easier to synthesize, accelerating experimental realization and material development.
Computation is increasingly being used to try to accelerate the discovery of new materials. One specific example of this is porous molecular materials, specifically porous organic cages, where the porosity of the materials predominantly comes from the internal cavities of the molecules themselves. The computational discovery of novel structures with useful properties is currently hindered by the difficulty in transitioning from a computational prediction to synthetic realization. Attempts at experimental validation are often time-consuming, expensive, and frequently, the key bottleneck of material discovery. In this work, we developed a computational screening workflow for porous molecules that includes consideration of the synthetic difficulty of material precursors, aimed at easing the transition between computational prediction and experimental realization. We trained a machine learning model by first collecting data on 12,553 molecules categorized either as easy-to-synthesize or difficult-to-synthesize by expert chemists with years of experience in organic synthesis. We used an approach to address the class imbalance present in our data set, producing a binary classifier able to categorize easy-to-synthesize molecules with few false positives. We then used our model during computational screening for porous organic molecules to bias toward precursors whose easier synthesis requirements would make them promising candidates for experimental realization and material development. We found that even by limiting precursors to those that are easier-to-synthesize, we are still able to identify cages with favorable, and even some rare, properties.
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