OSCAR: an extensive repository of chemically and functionally diverse organocatalysts

S Gallarati, P van Gerwen, R Laplaza, S Vela… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The automated construction of datasets has become increasingly relevant in computational
chemistry. While transition-metal catalysis has greatly benefitted from bottom-up or top-down …

Identifying underexplored and untapped regions in the chemical space of transition metal complexes

A Nandy, MG Taylor, HJ Kulik - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We survey more than 240 000 crystallized mononuclear transition metal complexes (TMCs)
to identify trends in preferred geometric structure and metal coordination. While we observe …

ReaLigands: a ligand library cultivated from experiment and intended for molecular computational catalyst design

SS Chen, Z Meyer, B Jensen, A Kraus… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Computational catalyst design requires identification of a metal and ligand that together
result in the desired reaction reactivity and/or selectivity. A major impediment to translating …

Reaction-Agnostic Featurization of Bidentate Ligands for Bayesian Ridge Regression of Enantioselectivity

AA Schoepfer, R Laplaza, MD Wodrich, J Waser… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral ligands are important components in asymmetric homogeneous catalysis, but their
synthesis and screening can be both time-consuming and resource-intensive. Data-driven …

Directional multiobjective optimization of metal complexes at the billion-system scale

H Kneiding, A Nova, D Balcells - Nature Computational Science, 2024 - nature.com
The discovery of transition metal complexes (TMCs) with optimal properties requires large
ligand libraries and efficient multiobjective optimization algorithms. Here we provide the …

[HTML][HTML] Ligand additivity relationships enable efficient exploration of transition metal chemical space

N Arunachalam, S Gugler, MG Taylor… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
To accelerate the exploration of chemical space, it is necessary to identify the compounds
that will provide the most additional information or value. A large-scale analysis of …

Data‐Driven Discovery of Organic Electronic Materials Enabled by Hybrid Top‐Down/Bottom‐Up Design

JT Blaskovits, R Laplaza, S Vela… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The high‐throughput exploration and screening of molecules for organic electronics
involves either a 'top‐down'curation and mining of existing repositories, or a 'bottom …

Inverse Design of Singlet‐Fission Materials with Uncertainty‐Controlled Genetic Optimization

L Schaufelberger, JT Blaskovits, R Laplaza… - Angewandte …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Singlet fission has shown potential for boosting the efficiency of solar cells, but the scarcity of
suitable molecular materials hinders its implementation. We introduce an uncertainty …

Reply to Comment on 'Physics-based representations for machine learning properties of chemical reactions'

P van Gerwen, MD Wodrich, R Laplaza… - Machine Learning …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, we published an article in this journal that explored physics-based representations
in combination with kernel models for predicting reaction properties (ie TS barrier heights) …

Toward AI/ML-assisted discovery of transition metal complexes

H **, KM Merz Jr - 2024 - chemrxiv.org
Traditional computational methods for molecule design are based on first principles
calculation, which places a high demand on computing power. The increasingly powerful …