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Automated quantum chemistry for estimating nucleophilicity and electrophilicity with applications to retrosynthesis and covalent inhibitors

Digital Discovery, ISSN: 2635-098X, Vol: 3, Issue: 2, Page: 347-354
2024
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  • Citations
    6
  • Captures
    11
  • Social Media
    19
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      19
      • Facebook
        19

Article Description

Reactivity scales such as nucleophilicity and electrophilicity are valuable tools for determining chemical reactivity and selectivity. However, prior attempts to predict or calculate nucleophilicity and electrophilicity are either not capable of generalizing well to unseen molecular structures or require substantial computing resources. We present a fully automated quantum chemistry (QM)-based workflow that automatically identifies nucleophilic and electrophilic sites and computes methyl cation affinities and methyl anion affinities to quantify nucleophilicity and electrophilicity, respectively. The calculations are based on rSCAN-3c SMD(DMSO) single-point calculations on GFN1-xTB ALPB(DMSO) geometries that, in turn, derive from a GFNFF-xTB ALPB(DMSO) conformational search. The workflow is validated against both experimental and higher-level QM-derived data resulting in very strong correlations while having a median wall time of less than two minutes per molecule. Additionally, we demonstrate the workflow on two different applications: first, as a general tool for filtering retrosynthetic routes based on chemical selectivity predictions, and second, as a tool for determining the relative reactivity of covalent inhibitors. The code is freely available on GitHub under the MIT open source license and as a web application at https://www.esnuel.org.

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