Hypothesis‐and‐Refinement Learning of Organic Structures From Multimodal Spectroscopic Data

ABSTRACT Determining molecular structures from spectroscopic data remains fundamentally challenging because the inverse problem is intrinsically underdetermined: individual spectra are sparse, low‐dimensional, and encode only partial structural evidence relative to the vast space of possible molecules. We address this challenge by formulating automated structure elucidation as a scalable hypothesis‐refinement paradigm that tightly integrates spectral evidence with large‐scale molecular priors. To supply structure‐resolving NMR signals for multimodal learning, we construct QM9SPIN , a DFT‐derived dataset comprising diverse 1D and 2D spectra, including J‐coupling, DEPT experiments, and explicit spin–spin interactions. On this foundation, we introduce SpectroMol , a spectrum‐to‐structure model that proposes chemically valid molecular hypotheses conditioned on multimodal spectral inputs. Complementarily, we develop MS‐Mol2Mol , a high‐resolution mass‐constrained molecular generator that integrates molecular formula, exact mass, and degree of unsaturation within a conditional generative prior trained on 400 million molecules, ensuring global compositional consistency and chemically realistic refinement. The integrated system achieves 93.8% top‐1 accuracy on the simulated benchmark, adapts effectively from simulated to experimental spectra with limited experimental fine‐tuning, and further improves experimental predictions through mass‐guided refinement, establishing a scalable route toward automated, data‐driven organic structure elucidation.

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Angewandte Chemie
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2026-09-11
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.9212238
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Machine Learning in Materials Science
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ABSTRACT Determining molecular structures from spectroscopic data remains fundamentally challenging because the inverse problem is intrinsically underdetermined: individual spectra are sparse, low‐dimensional, and encode only partial structural evidence relative to the vast space of possible molecules. We address this challenge by formulating automated structure elucidation as a scalable hypothesis‐refinement paradigm that tightly integrates spectral evidence with large‐scale molecular priors. To supply structure‐resolving NMR signals for multimodal learning, we construct QM9SPIN , a DFT‐derived dataset comprising diverse 1D and 2D spectra, including J‐coupling, DEPT experiments, and explicit spin–spin interactions. On this foundation, we introduce SpectroMol , a spectrum‐to‐structure model that proposes chemically valid molecular hypotheses conditioned on multimodal spectral inputs. Complementarily, we develop MS‐Mol2Mol , a high‐resolution mass‐constrained molecular generator that integrates molecular formula, exact mass, and degree of unsaturation within a conditional generative prior trained on 400 million molecules, ensuring global compositional consistency and chemically realistic refinement. The integrated system achieves 93.8% top‐1 accuracy on the simulated benchmark, adapts effectively from simulated to experimental spectra with limited experimental fine‐tuning, and further improves experimental predictions through mass‐guided refinement, establishing a scalable route toward automated, data‐driven organic structure elucidation.

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Shenzhen University (CN), Peking University (CN), Institute of Organic Synthesis (RU), Institute of Organic Chemistry (PL), Peking University Shenzhen Hospital (CN), Peng Cheng Laboratory (CN), Oriental Yuhong (China) (CN), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (KR), Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
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