arXiv:2608. 11283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computation-ready metal-organic framework (MOF) databases are essential for high-throughput screening, yet many reported crystal structures remain chemically unreasonable or disordered, compromising simulation fidelity.
By Guobin Zhao, Xiao-Yan Li
arXiv:2606. 29459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) requires searching a combinatorially vast space where property labels are expensive and most machine-learning models reveal little about why a structure succeeds.
By Kyungmin Nam, Seunghee Han, Jihan Kim
arXiv:2607. 19935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large metal-organic framework (MOF) databases support simulation, screening, and machine learning through crystallographic information files (CIFs).
By Yu Liu, Zhiwei Yang, Diandian Guo, Kun Peng, Fangfang Yuan, Cong Cao, Chaozhuo Li, Zhiyuan Ma, Yanbing Liu, Guobin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 03660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as chemistry assistants, yet most chemistry benchmarks still score only final answers.
By Hongyu Guo, Hao Li, He Cao, Gongbo Zhang, Li Yuan
oMeBench is a large-scale, expert-curated benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on organic mechanism reasoning. It contains over 10,000 annotated mechanistic steps, including reaction type labels, intermediate structures, and difficulty ratings, and introduces the oMeS scoring framework to assess logical consistency and chemical structural similarity. Evaluation shows that while current LLMs display promising chemical intuition, they often fail to produce correct and consistent multi-step reasoning, though prompting and fine-tuning can bring smaller models up to the level of closed‑source frontier models.
By Ruiling Xu, Yifan Zhang
MAESTRO is a large language model agent that automates the full screening pipeline for metal‑organic frameworks (MOFs). It parses extensive MOF literature, links publications to crystal structures, curates a computation‑ready database, and then applies a progressively more expensive computational strategy to identify promising candidates. The identified materials for wet flue gas separation come from unrelated studies, demonstrating the agent’s ability to uncover high‑performance materials across domains.
By Chen Yuntong, Huang Ju, Liu Yu, Zhao Dan, Sun Mingqi, Ju Chentian, Liu Yanbing, Huang Lijiang, Zhao Guobin
arXiv:2601. 09285v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous crystalline materials with broad applications such as carbon capture and drug delivery, yet accurately predicting their 3D structures remains a significant challenge.
By Mianzhi Pan, JianFei Li, Peishuo Liu, Botian Wang, Yawen Ouyang, Yiming Rong, Hao Zhou, Jianbing Zhang
ChemVTS-Bench is a domain-authentic benchmark that evaluates Visual‑Textual‑Symbolic reasoning in multimodal large language models for chemistry. It presents diverse chemical problems—organic molecules, inorganic materials, and 3D crystal structures—in three input modes: visual-only, visual‑text hybrid, and SMILES-based symbolic. The benchmark includes an automated agent workflow for inference, answer verification, and failure diagnosis, and shows that visual-only inputs and structural chemistry remain challenging for current models.
By Zhiyuan Huang, Baichuan Yang, Zikun He, Yanhong Wu, Fang Hongyu, Zhenhe Liu, Lin Dongsheng, Bing Su
arXiv:2602. 17902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can plan scientific workflows and generate code, but these capabilities do not specify how scientific state is validated, transferred and recorded across heterogeneous computational and experimental operations.
By Jiaru Bai, Abdulrahman Aldossary, Thomas Swanick, Marcel M\"uller, Yeonghun Kang, Changhyeok Choi, Naruki Yoshikawa, Zijian Zhang, Jin Won Lee, Tsz Wai Ko, Aiwei Yin, Mohammad Ghazi Vakili, Chris Crebolder, Varinia Bernales, Al\'an Aspuru-Guzik
The paper introduces ARCHE, an autonomous system that combines a general-purpose reasoning model, a domain-specialized computational chemistry model, and a structured tool registry to automate chemical mechanism discovery. ARCHE interprets scientific questions, generates and prioritizes mechanistic hypotheses, orchestrates computational workflows, and refines conclusions in a closed loop. The authors validate the system on three challenging scenarios, including reconstructing stereocontrolling transition states, proposing a radical pathway for an unpublished reaction, and identifying a descriptor governing selectivity in nickel-catalyzed cross‑coupling reactions.
By Dong Li, Sixuan Mi, Zihao Ye, Huan Xiong, Tao XU, Tong Zhu, Aijia Zhang, Junqi Gao, Kaiyan Zhang, Shijie Wang, Bowen Zhou, Yuqiang Li, Biqing Qi
arXiv:2603. 29152v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offer a vast design space, and as such, computational simulations play a critical role in predicting their structural and physicochemical properties.
By Jaewoong Lee, Taeun Bae, Jihan Kim
SCICONVBENCH is a benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) on multi‑turn clarification tasks in computational science. It focuses on two key abilities: eliciting missing information (disambiguation) and resolving contradictory requests (inconsistency resolution) across four domains—fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, materials science, and partial differential equations. The benchmark pairs a structured task ontology with a rubric‑based evaluation framework, measuring LLM performance in clarification behavior, conversational grounding, and final‑specification fidelity, and reveals that even top models only resolve about 52.7% of disambiguation cases in fluid mechanics while often making ungrounded assumptions.
By Nithin Somasekharan, Youssef Hassan, Shiyao Lin, Gihan Panapitiya, Patrick Emami, Anurag Acharya, Sameera Horawalavithana, Shaowu Pan