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Analyzing synthesis pathways for target molecules in a chemical reaction network annotated with information on the kinetics of individual reactions is an area of active study. This work presents a computational methodology for searching for…
The identification of trajectories that contribute to the reaction rate is the crucial dynamical ingredient in any classical chemical reactivity calculation. This problem often requires a full scale numerical simulation of the dynamics, in…
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Transition states and minimum energy paths are essential to understand and predict chemical reactivity. Double-ended methods represent a standard approach for their determination. We introduce a new double-ended method that optimizes…
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Identifying minimum-energy paths (MEPs) is crucial for understanding chemical reaction mechanisms but remains computationally demanding. We introduce MEPIN, a scalable machine-learning method for efficiently predicting MEPs from reactant…
We present a method to sample reactive pathways via biased molecular dynamics simulations in trajectory space. We show that the use of enhanced sampling techniques enables unconstrained exploration of multiple reaction routes. Time…
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The concept of the limiting step is extended to the asymptotology of multiscale reaction networks. Complete theory for linear networks with well separated reaction rate constants is developed. We present algorithms for explicit…
A reduced two dimensional model is used to study Ketene isomerization reaction. In light of recent results by Ulusoy \textit{et al.} [J.\ Phys.\ Chem.\ A {\bf 117}, 7553 (2013)], the present work focuses on the generalization of the roaming…
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We propose a cross-entropy minimization method for finding the reaction coordinate from a large number of collective variables in complex molecular systems. This method is an extension of the likelihood maximization approach describing the…
Accurate identification of chemical species and reaction pathways from molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories is a prerequisite for deriving predictive chemical-kinetic models and for mechanistic discovery in reactive systems. However,…
We used for the first time the method of periodic orbit dividing surfaces in a non-integrable Hamiltonian system with three degrees of freedom. We have studied the structure of these four dimensional objects in the five dimensional phase…
Using random walk sampling methods for feature learning on networks, we develop a method for generating low-dimensional node embeddings for directed graphs and identifying transition states of stochastic chemical reacting systems. We…
Finding representative reaction pathways is necessary for understanding mechanisms of molecular processes, but is considered to be extremely challenging. We propose a new method to construct reaction paths based on mean first-passage times.…
Dynamics of reaction coordinates during barrier-crossing are key to understand activated processes in complex systems such as proteins. The default assumption from Kramers physical intuition is that of a diffusion process. However, the…
In this paper, we propose a new method to identify biochemical reaction networks (i.e. both reactions and kinetic parameters) from heterogeneous datasets. Such datasets can contain (a) data from several replicates of an experiment performed…
We present a family of algorithms for the fast determination of reaction paths and barriers in phase space and the computation of the corresponding rates. The method requires the reaction times be large compared to the microscopic time,…