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Xin Yi See¹, Xuelan Wen¹, T Alexander Wheeler¹

¹Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.

|July 30, 2021

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Iterative supervised principal component analysis (ISPCA) enables efficient catalyst design by predicting structure-activity relationships. This data-driven approach rapidly improved catalytic selectivity for pyrrole synthesis, outperforming traditional methods.

Keywords:

DFT catalyst prediction iterative supervised principal component analysis pyrrole selectivity titanium

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Area of Science:

Catalysis
Computational Chemistry
Materials Science

Background:

Rational catalyst design is complex due to numerous variables influencing chemical reactions.
Discovering predictive structure-activity relationships is crucial for developing selective catalysts.
Current methods often involve extensive screening, lacking efficiency in catalyst discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and validate iterative supervised principal component analysis (ISPCA) for de novo catalyst design.
To demonstrate ISPCA's ability to predict and enhance catalyst selectivity.
To compare ISPCA with multivariate linear regression (MLR) in catalyst scouting.

Main Methods:

Application of ISPCA to a training set of catalysts for Ti-catalyzed pyrrole synthesis.
Regression of catalyst performance against principal component scores.
In silico prediction of selectivity for new catalyst designs informed by PCA loadings and k-means clustering.

Main Results:

ISPCA workflow iteratively improved catalytic selectivity from 0.5 to over 11 (>90% product C) in three generations.
Ligand lability was identified as a key factor influencing catalyst selectivity through ISPCA and DFT modeling.
ISPCA proved more robust and predictive than MLR, especially with sparse training data.

Conclusions:

ISPCA offers a powerful, data-driven strategy for de novo catalyst design, accelerating the discovery of selective catalysts.
This method significantly reduces the need for lengthy, stochastic screening processes.
The study advocates for the broader adoption of ISPCA in reaction development and catalysis informatics.