Self-driving laboratories for chemistry and materials science

G Tom, SP Schmid, SG Baird, Y Cao, K Darvish… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

ROBERT: bridging the gap between machine learning and chemistry

D Dalmau, JV Alegre‐Requena - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Beyond addressing technological demands, the integration of machine learning (ML) into
human societies has also promoted sustainability through the adoption of digitalized …

Tuning the steric hindrance of alkylamines: a predictive model of steric editing of planar amines

M Tomasini, M Voccia, L Caporaso, M Szostak… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Amines are one of the most prevalent functional groups in chemistry. Perhaps even more
importantly, amines represent one of the most ubiquitous moieties within the realm of …

Computational methods for asymmetric catalysis

S Pinus, J Genzling, M Burai-Patrascu, N Moitessier - Nature Catalysis, 2024 - nature.com
Impressive progress in computational asymmetric catalysis has been made in the past
twenty years owing to advancements in algorithm and method development for predicting …

Electrochemical modification of polypeptides at selenocysteine

AS Mackay, JWC Maxwell, MJ Bedding… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mild strategies for the selective modification of peptides and proteins are in demand for
applications in therapeutic peptide and protein discovery, and in the study of fundamental …

Dynamic vertical triplet energies: Understanding and predicting triplet energy transfer

MV Popescu, RS Paton - Chem, 2024 - cell.com
A computational approach for modeling and predicting triplet energy sensitization of organic
molecules is described, which involves sampling the instantaneous, vertical energy gaps …

Tricyclononenes and tricyclononadienes as efficient monomers for controlled ROMP: understanding structure–propagation rate relationships and enabling facile post …

LJ Kilgallon, TP McFadden, MS Sigman… - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Grubbs 3rd-generation (G3) pre-catalyst-initiated ring-opening metathesis polymerization
(ROMP) remains an indispensable tool in the polymer chemist's toolbox. Tricyclononenes …

Overcoming the Pitfalls of Computing Reaction Selectivity from Ensembles of Transition States

R Laplaza, MD Wodrich… - The journal of physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The prediction of reaction selectivity is a challenging task for computational chemistry, not
only because many molecules adopt multiple conformations but also due to the exponential …

PyDFT-QMMM: A modular, extensible software framework for DFT-based QM/MM molecular dynamics

JP Pederson, JG McDaniel - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
PyDFT-QMMM is a Python-based package for performing hybrid quantum
mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations at the density functional level of …

Applying statistical modeling strategies to sparse datasets in synthetic chemistry

BC Haas, D Kalyani, MS Sigman - Science Advances, 2025 - science.org
The application of statistical modeling in organic chemistry is emerging as a standard
practice for probing structure-activity relationships and as a predictive tool for many …