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Taking chemical reaction prediction models one step further in a great collaboration with Giorgio (@Giorgio_P_), a brilliant organic chemist!
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A major limitation of current deep learning reaction prediction models is stereochemistry. It is not taken into account by graph-neural networks and a weakness of text-based prediction models, like the Molecular Transformer (doi.org/10.1021/acscen…).
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In this work, we take carbohydrate reactions as an example. Compared to the reactions in patents (avg. 0.4 stereocentres in product), carbohydrate contain multiple stereocentres (avg. >6 in our test set), which make reactivity predictions challenging even for human experts. 3/N 
