Late-stage C–H functionalization offers new opportunities in drug discovery

L Guillemard, N Kaplaneris, L Ackermann… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the landscape of molecular synthesis has gained major impetus by
the introduction of late-stage functionalization (LSF) methodologies. C–H functionalization …

Late-stage functionalization for improving drug-like molecular properties

NJ Castellino, AP Montgomery, JJ Danon… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of late-stage functionalization (LSF) methodologies, particularly C–H
functionalization, has revolutionized the field of organic synthesis. Over the past decade …

Automation and computer-assisted planning for chemical synthesis

Y Shen, JE Borowski, MA Hardy, R Sarpong… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The molecules of today—the medicines that cure diseases, the agrochemicals that protect
our crops, the materials that make life convenient—are becoming increasingly sophisticated …

Organic reactivity from mechanism to machine learning

K Jorner, A Tomberg, C Bauer, C Sköld… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
As more data are introduced in the building of models of chemical reactivity, the mechanistic
component can be reduced until 'big data'applications are reached. These methods no …

AQME: Automated quantum mechanical environments for researchers and educators

JV Alegre‐Requena, S Sowndarya SV… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
AQME, automated quantum mechanical environments, is a free and open‐source Python
package for the rapid deployment of automated workflows using cheminformatics and …

Reaction performance prediction with an extrapolative and interpretable graph model based on chemical knowledge

SW Li, LC Xu, C Zhang, SQ Zhang, X Hong - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of reactivity and selectivity provides the desired guideline for synthetic
development. Due to the high-dimensional relationship between molecular structure and …

OSCAR: an extensive repository of chemically and functionally diverse organocatalysts

S Gallarati, P van Gerwen, R Laplaza, S Vela… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The automated construction of datasets has become increasingly relevant in computational
chemistry. While transition-metal catalysis has greatly benefitted from bottom-up or top-down …

Valence-isomer selective cycloaddition reaction of cycloheptatrienes-norcaradienes

S Harada, H Takenaka, T Ito, H Kanda… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid and precise creation of complex molecules while controlling multiple selectivities
is the principal objective in synthetic chemistry. Combining data science and organic …

Rational Design of a Facially Coordinating P,N,N Ligand for Manganese‐Catalysed Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Cyclic Ketones

CL Oates, AS Goodfellow, M Bühl… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DFT calculations on the full catalytic cycle for manganese catalysed enantioselective
hydrogenation of a selection of ketones have been carried out at the PBE0‐D3PCM//RI …

Genetic optimization of homogeneous catalysts

R Laplaza, S Gallarati, C Corminboeuf - Chemistry‐Methods, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We present the NaviCatGA package, a versatile genetic algorithm capable of optimizing
molecular catalyst structures using well‐suited fitness functions to achieve a set of targeted …