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Retrosynthesis prediction focuses on identifying reactants capable of synthesizing a target product. Typically, the retrosynthesis prediction involves two phases: Reaction Center Identification and Reactant Generation. However, we argue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Shengyin Sun , Wenhao Yu , Yuxiang Ren , Weitao Du , Liwei Liu , Xuecang Zhang , Ying Hu , Chen Ma

Retrosynthesis plays a crucial role in the fields of organic synthesis and drug development, where the goal is to identify suitable reactants that can yield a target product molecule. Although existing methods have achieved notable success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jiaxi Zhuang , Yu Zhang , Yan Zhang , Ying Qian , Aimin Zhou

We present an attention-based Transformer model for automatic retrosynthesis route planning. Our approach starts from reactants prediction of single-step organic reactions for given products, followed by Monte Carlo tree search-based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-07 Kangjie Lin , Youjun Xu , Jianfeng Pei , Luhua Lai

Retrosynthesis -- the process of identifying a set of reactants to synthesize a target molecule -- is of vital importance to material design and drug discovery. Existing machine learning approaches based on language models and graph neural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 Ruoxi Sun , Hanjun Dai , Li Li , Steven Kearnes , Bo Dai

Retrosynthesis prediction is one of the fundamental challenges in organic synthesis. The task is to predict the reactants given a core product. With the advancement of machine learning, computer-aided synthesis planning has gained…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-02-01 Yue Wan , Benben Liao , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Shengyu Zhang

Retrosynthesis prediction is a fundamental problem in organic synthesis, where the task is to identify precursor molecules that can be used to synthesize a target molecule. A key consideration in building neural models for this task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Vignesh Ram Somnath , Charlotte Bunne , Connor W. Coley , Andreas Krause , Regina Barzilay

Predicting reactants from a specified core product stands as a fundamental challenge within organic synthesis, termed retrosynthesis prediction. Recently, semi-template-based methods and graph-edits-based methods have achieved good…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-13 Zixun Lan , Binjie Hong , Jiajun Zhu , Zuo Zeng , Zhenfu Liu , Limin Yu , Fei Ma

In silico tools are important for generating novel hypotheses and exploring alternatives in de novo metabolic pathway design. However, while many computational frameworks have been proposed for retrobiosynthesis, few successful examples of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peter Zhiping Zhang , Jeffrey D. Varner

The problem of retrosynthetic planning can be framed as one player game, in which the chemist (or a computer program) works backwards from a molecular target to simpler starting materials though a series of choices regarding which reactions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-23 John S. Schreck , Connor W. Coley , Kyle J. M. Bishop

Retrosynthesis prediction is a core task in organic synthesis that aims to predict reactants for a given product molecule. Traditionally, chemists select a plausible bond disconnection and derive corresponding reactants, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Hanbum Ko , Chanhui Lee , Ye Rin Kim , Rodrigo Hormazabal , Sehui Han , Sungbin Lim , Sungwoong Kim

Retrosynthesis, which aims to find a route to synthesize a target molecule from commercially available starting materials, is a critical task in drug discovery and materials design. Recently, the combination of ML-based single-step reaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Guoqing Liu , Di Xue , Shufang Xie , Yingce Xia , Austin Tripp , Krzysztof Maziarz , Marwin Segler , Tao Qin , Zongzhang Zhang , Tie-Yan Liu

Retrosynthesis is a technique to plan the chemical synthesis of organic molecules, for example drugs, agro- and fine chemicals. In retrosynthesis, a search tree is built by analysing molecules recursively and dissecting them into simpler…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Marwin Segler , Mike Preuß , Mark P. Waller

Retrosynthesis involves determining a sequence of reactions to synthesize complex molecules from simpler precursors. As this poses a challenge in organic chemistry, machine learning has offered solutions, particularly for predicting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Mikołaj Sacha , Michał Sadowski , Piotr Kozakowski , Ruard van Workum , Stanisław Jastrzębski

Reaction and retrosynthesis prediction are fundamental tasks in computational chemistry that have recently garnered attention from both the machine learning and drug discovery communities. Various deep learning approaches have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Ziqiao Meng , Peilin Zhao , Yang Yu , Irwin King

Retrosynthesis, the process of breaking down a target molecule into simpler precursors through a series of valid reactions, stands at the core of organic chemistry and drug development. Although recent machine learning (ML) research has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haorui Wang , Jeff Guo , Lingkai Kong , Rampi Ramprasad , Philippe Schwaller , Yuanqi Du , Chao Zhang

Retrosynthesis is the process of determining the set of reactant molecules that can react to form a desired product. Semi-template-based retrosynthesis methods, which imitate the reverse logic of synthesis reactions, first predict the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Frazier N. Baker , Ziqi Chen , Daniel Adu-Ampratwum , Xia Ning

Retrosynthesis is a problem to infer reactant compounds to synthesize a given product compound through chemical reactions. Recent studies on retrosynthesis focus on proposing more sophisticated prediction models, but the dataset to feed the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Kazuya Ujihara , Ryohto Sawada , Hirotaka Akita , Masaaki Kotera

Retrosynthesis planning is a fundamental challenge in chemistry which aims at designing reaction pathways from commercially available starting materials to a target molecule. Each step in multi-step retrosynthesis planning requires accurate…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-27 Ilia Igashov , Arne Schneuing , Marwin Segler , Michael Bronstein , Bruno Correia

Retrosynthesis analysis is a critical task in organic chemistry central to many important industries. Previously, various machine learning approaches have achieved promising results on this task by representing output molecules as strings…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-20 Lei Fang , Junren Li , Ming Zhao , Li Tan , Jian-Guang Lou

Computer-assisted synthesis planning aims to help chemists find better reaction pathways faster. Finding viable and short pathways from sugar molecules to value-added chemicals can be modeled as a retrosynthesis planning problem with a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Peihong Jiang , Hieu Doan , Sandeep Madireddy , Rajeev Surendran Assary , Prasanna Balaprakash