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From Organic Fragments to Photoswitchable Catalysts: The OFF-ON Structural Repository for Transferable Kernel-Based Potentials

Celerse, Frederic  
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Wodrich, Matthew D.  
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Vela, Sergi
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February 6, 2024
Journal Of Chemical Information And Modeling

Structurally and conformationally diverse databases are needed to train accurate neural networks or kernel-based potentials capable of exploring the complex free energy landscape of flexible functional organic molecules. Curating such databases for species beyond "simple" drug-like compounds or molecules composed of well-defined building blocks (e.g., peptides) is challenging as it requires thorough chemical space mapping and evaluation of both chemical and conformational diversities. Here, we introduce the OFF-ON (organic fragments from organocatalysts that are non-modular) database, a repository of 7869 equilibrium and 67,457 nonequilibrium geometries of organic compounds and dimers aimed at describing conformationally flexible functional organic molecules, with an emphasis on photoswitchable organocatalysts. The relevance of this database is then demonstrated by training a local kernel regression model on a low-cost semiempirical baseline and comparing it with a PBE0-D3 reference for several known catalysts, notably the free energy surfaces of exemplary photoswitchable organocatalysts. Our results demonstrate that the OFF-ON data set offers reliable predictions for simulating the conformational behavior of virtually any (photoswitchable) organocatalyst or organic compound composed of H, C, N, O, F, and S atoms, thereby opening a computationally feasible route to explore complex free energy surfaces in order to rationalize and predict catalytic behavior.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01953
Web of Science ID

WOS:001163325200001

Author(s)
Celerse, Frederic  
Wodrich, Matthew D.  
Vela, Sergi
Gallarati, Simone  
Fabregat, Raimon  
Juraskova, Veronika  
Corminboeuf, Clemence  
Date Issued

2024-02-06

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Journal Of Chemical Information And Modeling
Volume

64

Issue

4

Start page

1201

End page

1212

Subjects

Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Physical Sciences

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Technology

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Molecular-Dynamics Simulations

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Parameterization

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Organocatalysis

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Approximation

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Database

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EPFL

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LCMD  
FunderGrant Number

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur F?rderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

EPFL

817977

European Research Council (ERC)

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March 18, 2024
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