Cited by 81Magnetism in coordination complexesMachine Learning in Materials ScienceAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies

Seeing Is Believing: Experimental Spin States from Machine Learning Model Structure Predictions

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Taylor, Michael G., Yang, Tzuhsiung, Lin, Sean, Nandy, Aditya, Janet, Jon Paul, Duan, Chenru, Kulik, Heather J.·2020·The Journal of Physical Chemistry A

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Determination of ground-state spins of open-shell transition-metal complexes is critical to understanding catalytic and materials properties but also challenging with approximate electronic structure methods. As an alternative approach, we demonstrate how structure alone can be used to guide assignment of ground-state spin from experimentally determined crystal structures of transition-metal complexes. We first identify the limits of distance-based heuristics from distributions of metal–ligand bond lengths of over 2000 unique mononuclear Fe(II)/Fe(III) transition-metal complexes. To overcome these limits, we employ artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict spin-state-dependent metal–ligand bond lengths and classify experimental ground-state spins based on agreement of experimental structures with the ANN predictions. Although the ANN is trained on hybrid density functional theory data, we exploit the method-insensitivity of geometric properties to enable assignment of ground states for the majority (ca. 80–90%) of structures. We demonstrate the utility of the ANN by data-mining the literature for spin-crossover (SCO) complexes, which have experimentally observed temperature-dependent geometric structure changes, by correctly assigning almost all (>95%) spin states in the 46 Fe(II) SCO complex set. This approach represents a promising complement to more conventional energy-based spin-state assignment from electronic structure theory at the low cost of a machine learning model.

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Authors
Taylor, M. G., Yang, T., Lin, S., Nandy, A., Janet, J. P., Duan, C., & Kulik, H. J.
Affiliations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Kulik, Heather J.
Venue
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
Published
2020-03-28
Volume
124
Issue
16
Pages
3286-3299
ISSN
  • 1089-5639 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-5215
OpenAlex
W3013702686
Cited by
81
References
110
Citations by year
2026: 5 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 7
FWCI
9.64
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journal article
Language
en
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Funders
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (Marion Milligan Mason Award)
  • Office of Naval Research (N00014-17-1-2956, N00014-18-1-2434)
  • U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0018096)
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Career Award at the Scientific Interface)
  • National Science Foundation (CBET-1846426)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
Keywords
transition metal complexes, artificial neural networks, metal-ligand bond lengths, spin-crossover complexes, crystal structure, open-shell systems, hybrid density functional theory

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