Ruben Laplaza^1,2, Simone Gallarati¹, Clemence Corminboeuf^1,2*

1 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory for Computational Molecular Design (LCMD), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

2 National Center for Competence in Research-Catalysis (NCCR-Catalysis), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

* Corresponding authors emails: clemence.corminboeuf@epfl.ch

DOI10.24435/materialscloud:fz-sw [version v1]

Publication date: Jan 21, 2022

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Ruben Laplaza, Simone Gallarati, Clemence Corminboeuf, Genetic optimization of homogeneous catalysts, Materials Cloud Archive 2022.9 (2022), https://doi.org/10.24435/materialscloud:fz-sw

Description

We present the NaviCatGA package, a versatile genetic algorithm capable of optimizing molecular catalyst structures using well-suited fitness functions to achieve a set of targeted properties. The flexibility and generality of this tool are demonstrated with two examples: i) Ligand optimization and exploration for Ni-catalyzed aryl-ether cleavage manipulating SMILES and using a fitness function derived from molecular volcano plots, ii) multiobjective (i.e., activity/selectivity) optimization of bipyridine N.N'-dioxide Lewis basic organocatalysts for the asymmetric propargylation of benzaldehyde from 3D molecular fragments. We show that evolutionary optimization, enabled by NaviCatGA, is an efficient way of accelerating catalyst discovery that bypasses combinatorial scaling issues and incorporates compelling chemical constraints.

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README.txt MD5md5:5d6fb80ada4d9630dd0a564159cecab5	2.5 KiB	Describes the content of example_1.zip and example_2.zip in more detail.
example_1.zip MD5md5:c7a611baa648f6c0daccfbdd62a33575	182.1 MiB	Contains structures for the GA runs in Example 1, training data for the ML model and code snippets of the GA setup.
example_2.zip MD5md5:f06c2df72bce0bf23a6379ccad8addf1	1.6 MiB	Contains structures for the GA runs in Example 2, training data for the MLR model and code snippets of the GA setup.

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Keywords

homogeneous catalysis volcano plot catalysis optimization organocatalysis