(159f) Expert System for Automated Reaction Mechanism Generation
AIChE Annual Meeting
2019
2019 AIChE Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Reaction Chemistry and Engineering I: From Reaction Mechanisms to Continuous Synthesis
Monday, November 11, 2019 - 2:10pm to 2:30pm
Due to differences between ab initio- and heuristically written-published reaction mechanisms, we propose a first-principles based reaction mechanism generation framework using ab-initio data from DFT and published reaction mechanisms. The framework takes in as input a list of proposed reactions and species structure from DFT files. The code then generates reactant and product molecular graphs using the atomic coordinates of the species. The molecular graphs describe the connectivity of the atoms within the molecule and the catalyst. These molecular graphs are then matched to identify a common molecular graph; any edge that is present in the reactant graph and absent in the common graph is specified as a bond breaking step, while any edge that is present in the product graph and absent in the common graph is specified as a bond forming step. The reaction rules specifying the reactive center in the reactants and the transformation rules are then generated. These reaction rules are then imported into an automated network generator. The proposed framework can be used to generate reaction networks for systems that have not been studied and also for testing the accuracy of published mechanisms. Multiple reaction systems with varying carbon chain length are considered to show the efficacy of the proposed framework.
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