*Result*: Molreac-Oxi: An end-to-end deep learning-quantum chemistry platform for •OH reactivity (kOH), pathways, and active-site insight.

Title:
Molreac-Oxi: An end-to-end deep learning-quantum chemistry platform for •OH reactivity (kOH), pathways, and active-site insight.
Authors:
Shao F; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, PR China., Li W; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, PR China. Electronic address: 123lwyktz@tongji.edu.cn., Liang Z; College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, PR China., Wang C; Shenzhen Water and Environment Group Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 518172, PR China., Li T; Shenzhen Water and Environment Group Co., Ltd, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, 518172, PR China., Wei Z; Fuzhou Water Group Co., Ltd, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350005, PR China., Xu X; Fuzhou Water Group Co., Ltd, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, 350005, PR China.
Source:
Environmental research [Environ Res] 2026 Mar 15; Vol. 293, pp. 123763. Date of Electronic Publication: 2026 Jan 12.
Publication Type:
Journal Article
Language:
English
Journal Info:
Publisher: Elsevier Country of Publication: Netherlands NLM ID: 0147621 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1096-0953 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00139351 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Environ Res Subsets: MEDLINE
Imprint Name(s):
Publication: <2000- > : Amsterdam : Elsevier
Original Publication: New York, Academic Press.
Contributed Indexing:
Keywords: Deep learning; Environmental chemistry; Hydroxyl radical (•OH); Pollutant degradation kinetics; Quantum-chemical descriptors; k(OH) rate constant prediction
Substance Nomenclature:
3352-57-6 (Hydroxyl Radical)
0 (Environmental Pollutants)
Entry Date(s):
Date Created: 20260114 Date Completed: 20260207 Latest Revision: 20260207
Update Code:
20260208
DOI:
10.1016/j.envres.2026.123763
PMID:
41534583
Database:
MEDLINE

*Further Information*

*To address the long-standing challenge of efficiently evaluating reaction rate constants (k<subscript>OH</subscript>) for pollutant-hydroxyl radical (•OH) systems in environmental pollution control, a hybrid meta-model framework is introduced that fuses deep pretrained models with traditional machine learning, together with an integrated platform that unifies prediction, mechanistic inference, and online analysis. From DFT-optimized structures, multidimensional quantum-chemical descriptors were extracted for 968 pollutants, and a large-scale pretrained 3D molecular model (Uni-Mol) was fine-tuned. The fine-tuned Uni-Mol model was stacked alongside first-layer learners-Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost-whose outputs were fused by a regularized linear meta-learner to estimate k<subscript>OH</subscript>. The stacked-ensemble attains R<sup>2</sup> = 0.806 with a lower MAE than any single learner, and parity plots and residual diagnostics for log<subscript>10</subscript>(k<subscript>OH</subscript>) indicate limited bias across major chemical classes. Interpretability is enhanced with SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) and conditional, correlation-aware effect estimates; where appropriate, bootstrap-supported thresholds are reported to avoid over-interpreting collinear descriptors. To compensate for the limited PES (potential-energy-surface) resolution of static structure-property models, a PES-Learn model trained on 72,502 organic pollutants is coupled to a nanoreactor MD workflow so that mechanism-level hypotheses can be generated at near-DFT fidelity and orders-of-magnitude lower cost; on a GPU, inference achieves speedups of up to ∼3.1 × 10<sup>4</sup> over conventional DFT. These models and CDFT analysis are encapsulated in an online platform (https://www.bohrium.com/apps/molreac-oxi), providing a closed-loop workflow from rapid batch screening to reaction-pathway and active-site analysis.
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*Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.*