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Minimalist, coordinate-free machine learning descriptors can accurately capture global electronic trends in peri-metalated polyacenes without requiring explicit atomic coordinates, revealing distinct electronic regimes driven by copper versus gold metalation. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To model and predict the electronic and spin properties of gold- and copper-metalated polyacenes using a small-data scientific machine learning architecture without explicit atomic coordinates.

September 3, 2026ChemistryOpen Access

Coordinate-Free Scientific Machine Learning Reveals Sequence-Dependent Electronic Regimes in Peri-Metalated Polyacenes: From Dominant Size/Composition Trends to Reproducible Local Arrangement Effects

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DVDinesh V. VidhaniFlorida State University DVDinesh V. VidhaniFlorida State University TSThalia Sautie

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Computational study uncovers sequence-dependent electronic regimes in peri-metalated polyacenes, highlighting a coordinate-free machine learning framework for hybrid semiconductor design.

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To model and predict the electronic and spin properties of gold- and copper-metalated polyacenes using a small-data scientific machine learning architecture without explicit atomic coordinates.
Coupled density functional theory calculations with coordinate-free residual learning built upon an analytical baseline of inverse ring size and metal counts.
Evaluated model performance using a comprehensive 53-descriptor chemical representation and a dimensionality-reduced 4-descriptor variant.
Excluded explicit atomic geometries, wavefunctions, orbital energies, and spatial interaction parameters from the training features.
Both the 53-descriptor and 4-descriptor architectures successfully captured principal electronic trends, including bandgaps, ionization energies, and electron affinities across polyacene series.
Gold metalation yielded predictable, stable electronic structures, whereas copper functionalization induced emergent behavior characterized by severe bandgap narrowing and near-degenerate singlet–triplet states.
Systematic prediction discrepancies relative to density functional theory pinpointed copper-rich extended acenes as a regime where baseline size and composition scaling breaks down.

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Vidhani et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9935f3636c6408cfa7eac8 https://doi.org/10.3390/chemistry8090121

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Computational study uncovers sequence-dependent electronic regimes in peri-metalated polyacenes, highlighting a coordinate-free machine learning framework for hybrid semiconductor design.

Coordinate-Free Scientific Machine Learning Reveals Sequence-Dependent Electronic Regimes in Peri-Metalated Polyacenes: From Dominant Size/Composition Trends to Reproducible Local Arrangement Effects

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