Digitizing chemical discovery with a Bayesian explorer for interpreting reactivity data.

Autor: M Mehr SH; School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK., Caramelli D; School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK., Cronin L; School of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A] 2023 Apr 25; Vol. 120 (17), pp. e2220045120. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 17.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2220045120
Abstrakt: Interpreting the outcome of chemistry experiments consistently is slow and frequently introduces unwanted hidden bias. This difficulty limits the scale of collectable data and often leads to exclusion of negative results, which severely limits progress in the field. What is needed is a way to standardize the discovery process and accelerate the interpretation of high-dimensional data aided by the expert chemist's intuition. We demonstrate a digital Oracle that interprets chemical reactivity using probability. By carrying out >500 reactions covering a large space and retaining both the positive and negative results, the Oracle was able to rediscover eight historically important reactions including the aldol condensation, Buchwald-Hartwig amination, Heck, Mannich, Sonogashira, Suzuki, Wittig, and Wittig-Horner reactions. This paradigm for decoding reactivity validates and formalizes the expert chemist's experience and intuition, providing a quantitative criterion of discovery scalable to all available experimental data.
Databáze: MEDLINE