Nature Communications (May 2020)

Prediction of organic homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost

  • Peter C. St. John,
  • Yanfei Guan,
  • Yeonjoon Kim,
  • Seonah Kim,
  • Robert S. Paton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16201-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Bond dissociation enthalpies are key quantities in determining chemical reactivity, their computations with quantum mechanical methods being highly demanding. Here the authors develop a machine learning approach to calculate accurate dissociation enthalpies for organic molecules with sub-second computational cost.