Prediction of organic homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost

Peter C. St. John (), Yanfei Guan, Yeonjoon Kim, Seonah Kim () and Robert S. Paton ()
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Peter C. St. John: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Yanfei Guan: Colorado State University
Yeonjoon Kim: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Seonah Kim: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Robert S. Paton: Colorado State University

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: 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−1 (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.

Date: 2020
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