Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Automated extraction of chemical synthesis actions from experimental procedures

  • Alain C. Vaucher,
  • Federico Zipoli,
  • Joppe Geluykens,
  • Vishnu H. Nair,
  • Philippe Schwaller,
  • Teodoro Laino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17266-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Extracting experimental operations for chemical synthesis from procedures reported in prose is a tedious task. Here the authors develop a deep-learning model based on the transformer architecture to translate experimental procedures from the field of organic chemistry into synthesis actions.