arXiv:2602. 13136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Template-free retrosynthesis methods treat the task as black-box sequence generation, limiting learning efficiency, while semi-template approaches rely on rigid reaction libraries that constrain generalization.
By Chenguang Wang, Zihan Zhou, Lei Bai, Tianshu Yu
arXiv:2608. 14076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transition-state (TS) structures define the energetic barriers and mechanistic pathways of elementary chemical reactions, yet their identification remains computationally demanding because conventional saddle-point searches require expensive quantum-mechanical calculations.
By Kaipeng Zeng, Wenxi Zhai, Shengrui Xu, Jie Zhao, Bowen Li, Shiyue Wang, Junchi Yan, Tong Zhu
arXiv:2608. 16111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrosynthesis is a cornerstone of drug discovery and organic synthesis.
By Mianzhi Liu, Fan Xiao, Zhiliang Yu, Huayang Huang, Yuke Li, Yi Yang, Wenbo Liu, Yu Wu
arXiv:2607. 17033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Forecasting the outcomes of transition-metal-catalyzed reactions is notoriously complex due to the interplay of diverse physical and chemical variables.
By Qiwei Han, Chi Zhou
arXiv:2607. 08003v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Catalysts are essential for sustainable chemical manufacturing, yet discovering novel architectures remains a bottleneck dominated by trial-and-error experimentation and computationally intensive screening.
By Sutanay Choudhury, Anwesha Banerjee, Udishnu Sanyal, Jorin Dawidowicz, Chiezugolum Ijeoma Odilinye, Jesun Firoz, Liney Arnadottir, Simone Raugei, Johannes Lercher, Arnab Dutta
arXiv:2604. 06336v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fragment-level representations provide a natural way to capture recurring molecular substructures and reuse their learned representations across molecules.
By Yi Yang, Ovidiu Daescu
arXiv:2607. 12771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reaction mechanisms consist of the step-by-step sequences of elementary reactions that explain chemical transformations.
By Xingyu Dang, Haocheng Tang, Junmei Wang, Yanjun Li
arXiv:2608. 03855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transformer models have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), and text-based molecular representations like SMILES have successfully extended these architectures to chemistry.
By David Ming Segura, Jeremy Goumaz, Joshua W. Sin, Bojana Rankovi\'c, Philippe Schwaller
arXiv:2502. 07027v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Molecular Relational Learning (MRL) is widely applied in natural sciences to predict relationships between molecular pairs by extracting structural features.
By Peiliang Zhang, Jingling Yuan, Qing Xie, Yongjun Zhu, Chao Che, Lin Li
arXiv:2607. 11712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inverse design is an emerging data-driven paradigm for efficiently navigating vast chemical spaces to discover new materials with targeted properties, and in the context of heterogeneous catalysis, surface generative models have recently advanced this goal by directly generating catalyst surface-adsorbate structures.
By Jungho Oh, Woosung Kim, Dong Hyeon Mok, Jonggeol Na, Seoin Back
arXiv:2606. 11508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurate prediction of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) properties is critical to drug discovery, but remains challenging because ADME endpoints are noisy, interdependent, and often data-limited.
By Yifan Xue, Srimukh Prasad Veccham, Saee Paliwal, Tyler Shimko, Micha Livne
arXiv:2606. 30778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mapping a chemical reaction network, the graph of minima and transition states (TS) and the elementary reactions connecting them, is the natural language of chemistry, from catalysis to combustion to the origin of life.
By Stefan Gugler, Max Eissler, Khaled Kahouli, Klaus-Robert M\"uller