Citation

N. Ian Rinehart et al., A machine-learning tool to predict substrate-adaptive conditions for Pd-catalyzed C–N couplings. Science 381, 965-972 (2023). DOI:10.1126/science.adg2114

Overview

Machine-learning methods have great potential to accelerate the identification of reaction conditions for chemical transformations. A tool that gives substrate-adaptive conditions for palladium (Pd)–catalyzed carbon-nitrogen (C–N) couplings is presented. The design and construction of this tool required the generation of an experimental dataset that explores a diverse network of reactant pairings across a set of reaction conditions. A large scope of C–N couplings was actively learned by neural network models by using a systematic process to design experiments. The models showed good performance in experimental validation: Ten products were isolated in more than 85% yield from a range of couplings with out-of-sample reactants designed to challenge the models. Importantly, the developed workflow continually improves the prediction capability of the tool as the corpus of data grows.

Data

Data and source code can be found at https://github.com/SEDenmarkLab/Lucid_Somnambulist.