Towards global reaction feasibility and robustness prediction with high throughput data and bayesian deep learning

Towards global reaction feasibility and robustness prediction with high throughput data and bayesian deep learning

Nature Communications

10.1038/s41467-025-59812-0

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59812-0

Haowen Zhong, Yilan Liu, Haibin Sun, Yuru Liu, Rentao Zhang, Baochen Li, Yi Yang, Yuqing Huang, Fei Yang, Frankie S. Mak, Klement Foo, Sen Lin, Tianshu Yu, Peng Wang, Xiaoxue Wang

15 May 2025

Zhong, H., Liu, Y., Sun, H., Liu, Y., Zhang, R., Li, B., Yang, Y., Huang, Y., Yang, F., Mak, F. S., Foo, K., Lin, S., Yu, T., Wang, P., & Wang, X. (2025). Towards global reaction feasibility and robustness prediction with high throughput data and bayesian deep learning. Nature Communications, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59812-0

Predicting organic reaction feasibility and robustness against environmental factors is challenging. We address this issue by integrating high throughput experimentation (HTE) and Bayesian deep learning. Diverging from existing HTE studies focused on niche chemical spaces, in this work, our in-house HTE platform conducted 11,669 distinct acid amine coupling reactions in 156 working hours, yielding the most extensive single HTE dataset at a volumetric scale for industrial delivery. Our Bayesian neural network model achieved a benchmark for prediction accuracy of 89.48% for reaction feasibility. Furthermore, our fine-grained uncertainty disentanglement enables efficient active learning, reducing 80% of data requirements. Additionally, our uncertainty analysis effectively identifies out-of-domain reactions and evaluates reaction robustness or reproducibility against environmental factors for scaling up, offering a practical framework for navigating chemical spaces and designing highly robust industrial processes.

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This research is supported by core funding from: Experimental Drug Development Centre
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https://oar.a-star.edu.sg/communities-collections/articles/23116

2041-1723

Experimental Drug Development Centre

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59812-0