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Sina Stocker¹, Gábor Csányi², Karsten Reuter^1,3

¹Chair of Theoretical Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany.

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Machine learning now explores chemical reaction space, developing a new database (Rad-6) and reaction energies (Rad-6-RE) to predict molecular transformations and simplify complex chemical processes.

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Area of Science:

Computational chemistry
Chemical reaction engineering
Machine learning applications in chemistry

Background:

Chemical compound space is vast (10^60 molecules) and largely intractable.
Machine learning (ML) shows promise in predicting properties within subsets of compound space.
Understanding chemical transformations is crucial for chemical science.

Purpose of the Study:

To apply machine learning to the study of chemical reaction space.
To establish a first-principles database (Rad-6) and reaction energy database (Rad-6-RE) for reactive ML.
To address the unique topology of reaction spaces for improved ML models.

Main Methods:

Creation of the Rad-6 database with organic molecules and the Rad-6-RE database with reaction energies.
Development of modified ML concepts to account for reaction space topology.
Application to methane combustion as a case study.

Main Results:

Demonstration of ML's capability in predicting reaction energies.
Identification of the need for modified ML approaches due to reaction space topology.
Successful application to methane combustion, yielding reduced reaction networks.

Conclusions:

Learned reaction energies provide a non-empirical method for analyzing complex chemical reactions.
The study provides a foundation for ML-driven exploration of reaction spaces.
This approach enables rational extraction of reduced reaction networks for microkinetic analysis.