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Arkadii I Lin1,2, Timur I Madzhidov1, Olga Klimchuk2
1Laboratory of Chemoinformatics and Molecular Modeling, Department of Organic Chemistry, A.M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University , Kremlyovskaya Str. 18, Kazan, Russia , 420008.
Abstract:
We report a new method to assess protective groups (PGs) reactivity as a function of reaction conditions (catalyst, solvent) using raw reaction data. It is based on an intuitive similarity principle for chemical reactions: similar reactions proceed under similar conditions. Technically, reaction similarity can be assessed using the Condensed Graph of Reaction (CGR) approach representing an ensemble of reactants and products as a single molecular graph, i.e., as a pseudomolecule for which molecular descriptors or fingerprints can be calculated. CGR-based in-house tools were used to process data for 142,111 catalytic hydrogenation reactions extracted from the Reaxys database. Our results reveal some contradictions with famous Greene's Reactivity Charts based on manual expert analysis. Models developed in this study show high accuracy (ca. 90%) for predicting optimal experimental conditions of protective group deprotection.
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