Designing low gas-phase enthalpy of formation based energetic molecules in python for high energy density materials chemical space
摘要
The development of high energy density materials relies on the discovery of molecules with low gas-phase enthalpy of formation (ΔHf°). In this study, a machine learning (ML) approach using Python has been applied to predict the ΔHf° of energetic molecules. Various models, including Ridge, Elastic, Lasso, and Historical Gradient Boosting regressors, accurately predicted the enthalpy of formation for 300 energetic molecules, achieving a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.68. SHapley impact analysis reveals that AATSC0pe and AMID_O features exhibit the highest correlations with the predicted enthalpy of formation. The results are further validated by using five fingerprint methods, including Morgan Fingerprints, and demonstrated an increase in model performance with training size. Using the Breaking Retro Synthetically Interesting Chemical Species (BRICS) approach, 1561 new energetic compounds with ΔHf° as low as -1542 kJ/mol has been designed. Notably, the results show that molecules with a SMILES length of less than 1000 can exhibit low ΔHf°, expanding the chemical space for high energy density materials design. This work demonstrates the potential of ML and computational chemistry for the rapid discovery of novel energetic molecules with tailored properties.
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