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CataCon: a contrastive graph representation learning framework for catalyst prediction.

Hua Shi1, Yuzhe Wang2, Shouzhen Song1

  • 1School of Opto-Electronic and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, China.

Journal of Cheminformatics
|May 20, 2026
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CataCon, a new deep learning framework, accurately predicts catalysts for chemical reactions by analyzing molecular structures. This approach enhances catalyst discovery and optimizes chemical synthesis processes.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions but predicting them is challenging.
  • Existing methods fail to capture detailed molecular structures and atomic information.
  • Accurate catalyst prediction is crucial for efficient chemical synthesis and materials discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel deep learning framework, CataCon, for accurate catalyst prediction.
  • To overcome limitations of existing methods by incorporating detailed molecular structural information.
  • To enhance the identification of optimal catalysts for chemical reactions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized GraphSAGE for generating molecular graph embeddings of reactants, products, and catalysts.
  • Implemented a contrastive learning module to align feature representations between reaction components and catalysts.
  • Trained the deep neural network on public catalytic reaction datasets.

Main Results:

  • CataCon significantly outperformed baseline methods in catalyst classification tasks.
  • Ablation studies confirmed the effectiveness of combining graph representation learning and contrastive learning.
  • Interpretability analyses provided insights into the model's decision-making process.

Conclusions:

  • CataCon offers a powerful tool for rational catalyst screening.
  • The framework accurately predicts optimal catalysts by integrating multidimensional molecular information.
  • This approach has the potential to accelerate materials discovery and optimize chemical synthesis.