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𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 as a Two-Step Graph Generative Models for Retrosynthesis Prediction

10 Jun 2022arXiv:2206.04882archive 2025-07-28

Ziqi Chen, Oluwatosin R. Ayinde, James R. Fuchs, Huan Sun, Xia Ning

Retrosynthesis is a procedure where a target molecule is transformed into potential reactants and thus the synthesis routes can be identified. Recently, computational approaches have been developed to accelerate the design of synthesis routes. In this paper, we develop a generative framework 𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 for one-step retrosynthesis prediction. 𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 imitates the reversed logic of synthetic reactions. It first predicts the reaction centers in the target molecules (products), identifies the synthons needed to assemble the products, and transforms these synthons into reactants. 𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 defines a comprehensive set of reaction center types, and learns from the molecular graphs of the products to predict potential reaction centers. To complete synthons into reactants, 𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 considers all the involved synthon structures and the product structures to identify the optimal completion paths, and accordingly attaches small substructures sequentially to the synthons. Here we show that 𝖦²𝖱𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗈 is able to better predict the reactants for given products in the benchmark dataset than the state-of-the-art methods.

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