arXiv:2508. 10967v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis prediction aims to infer the reactant molecules based on a given product molecule, which is a fundamental task in chemical synthesis.
arXiv:2507.17448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrosynthetic planning is a cornerstone of organic synthesis and drug discovery. Yet existing AI methods often rely on pattern matching rath...
arXiv:2603. 12666v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis prediction aims to identify reactants that can synthesize a given product molecule.
arXiv:2607. 12771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reaction mechanisms consist of the step-by-step sequences of elementary reactions that explain chemical transformations.
arXiv:2607. 14512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step retrosynthesis planning seeks to decompose a target molecule into commercially available building blocks through a sequence of feasible reactions.
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.
The paper introduces Top‑K prompting as a training and inference strategy to better capture the diverse, plausible predictions inherent in single‑step retrosynthesis. Using an ultra‑large dataset (CREED‑CCV‑2+USPTO‑XL) of ~45.6 million verified reactions, the authors train the Chemistry Constraint‑Consistent Language Model (C3LM). With fine‑tuning that incorporates ChemCensor‑based and novelty‑oriented rewards, C3LM achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on the OOD URSA‑expert‑2026 benchmark and demonstrates complementary reaction space exploration compared to conventional models, suggesting benefits for ensemble‑based retrosynthesis systems.
The paper introduces a multitask large reasoning model for molecular science that incorporates chemical knowledge via a multispecialist architecture, chain-of-thought supervision, and molecule-informed reinforcement learning. It coordinates prediction and inference specialists across ten molecular tasks—including description, generation, nomenclature translation, property prediction, and reaction prediction—using task-conditioned routing. The model surpasses more than 20 general-purpose and molecular large language models, improving aggregate performance by 50.3% and outperforming leading multitask baselines on most tasks, while maintaining interpretable chemical inference and demonstrating a workflow for CNS candidate generation and retrosynthetic planning.
arXiv:2607. 04688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthesis planning aiming to find pathways of reactions for a target molecule is one of the most important and challenging tasks in drug discovery.
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.
Latent JEPA is a new framework that trains continuous latent thoughts to anticipate informative aspects of future solutions in chemical reasoning, without verbalizing every intermediate step. It combines autoregressive learning with joint-embedding prediction of one or more future views, using textual and molecular prediction objectives that link latent thoughts to subsequent reasoning and molecular outcomes. Experiments on ChemCoTBench demonstrate improvements in molecular optimization, editing, and reaction metrics, and representation analyses show that future prediction makes latent thoughts more informative about molecular outcomes and better aligned with chemical structure.
Large language models offer a promising foundation for chemical reasoning, bringing together chemical knowledge and multistep problem solving. Chemical intuition can provide an initial sense of plausi...
arXiv:2602. 03554v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress has expanded the use of large language models (LLMs) in drug discovery, including synthesis planning.