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

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

SUBMITTER: St John PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214445 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature