arXiv:2601. 02424v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The synthesis of nanocrystals has been highly dependent on trial-and-error, due to the complex correlation between synthesis parameters and physicochemical properties.
By Kai Gu, Yingping Liang, Senliang Peng, Aotian Guo, Haizheng Zhong, Ying Fu
arXiv:2606. 30170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative molecular design is shaped by simple proxy benchmarks for drug-like properties and models pretrained on large pharmaceutical datasets.
By Matthias Blaschke, Daniel Kienzle, Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, Julian Lorenz, Rainer Lienhart, Fabian Pauly
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
The paper introduces Competitive Dimerization Networks (CDNs) as a chemical learning framework where molecular species bind reversibly to form dimers, with binding affinities acting as tunable synaptic weights. Through a directed evolution protocol involving mutation, selection, and amplification of DNA-based components, CDNs can be trained in vitro to perform complex tasks such as multiclass classification, achieving strong output contrast and high mutual information. Comparative studies with in silico gradient descent show closely correlated performance, positioning CDNs as a promising platform for analog physical computation that bridges synthetic biology and machine learning.
By Alexei V. Tkachenko, Bortolo Matteo Mognetti, Sergei Maslov
PGFS++ is a synthesis‑aware reinforcement learning framework that improves molecular properties such as drug‑likeness or binding affinity while ensuring the resulting molecules can be synthesized and remain structurally similar to the input. It builds on PGFS+ by using trainable embedding lookup tables for reaction templates and second reactants, a more effective scoring function, and a refined RL algorithm. The method addresses a reward‑hacking failure mode by treating each input molecule as the start of a forward‑synthesis trajectory, applying learned reaction templates with in‑stock building blocks, and producing diverse, high‑quality outputs with explicit synthesis routes.
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