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  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.

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We developed the Pathway-Aware Template-based RetrOsynthesis (PATRO) model to improve machine-learning retrosynthesis. PATRO enhances chemical synthesis planning by considering pathway context, leading to more efficient drug discovery.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational chemistry
  • Machine learning in chemical synthesis

Background:

  • Machine learning accelerates the discovery of synthetic routes for high-value compounds like drugs.
  • Current single-step retrosynthesis models often lack pathway context, causing search inefficiencies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the PATRO model, which incorporates pathway-level information into template-based retrosynthesis.
  • To evaluate PATRO's performance against baseline models in both single-step and multistep retrosynthesis.

Main Methods:

  • Augmented a template-based single-step retrosynthesis model using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network.
  • Processed pathway-level information to inform reaction predictions.
  • Integrated the pathway-aware model into two multistep retrosynthesis algorithms.

Main Results:

  • PATRO improved single-step retrosynthesis top-1 accuracy by 2.3% compared to the baseline.
  • Consistent performance gains were observed in multistep retrosynthesis metrics (success rate, patent route recovery, top-k accuracy).
  • PATRO reduced planning iterations by 10% for discovering literature routes from patents.

Conclusions:

  • Incorporating pathway-level information significantly enhances retrosynthesis model performance.
  • The PATRO model offers a more efficient approach to chemical synthesis planning.
  • This strategy holds potential for improving various other retrosynthesis models.