Manifold Diffusion for Structure Generation of Transition Metal Complexes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00666v1
• Date: Sat, 30 May 2026 10:47:55 GMT
• Title: Manifold Diffusion for Structure Generation of Transition Metal Complexes
• Abstract summary: We introduce a manifold diffusion machine learning model that efficiently generates geometries of transition metal complexes.<n>Our results demonstrate the potential of manifold-based generative modeling for data-efficient geometry generation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Transition metal complexes are central to catalysis, drug design, and materials science, with relevant properties strongly sensitive to their three-dimensional geometry. However, the electronic diversity and unconventional bonding environments of transition metal complexes pose a major challenge for accurate structure generation. In this work, we introduce TMCgen, a manifold diffusion machine learning model that efficiently and accurately generates geometries of transition metal complexes. By formulating the diffusion process over the metal-ligand coordination angles, combined with torsional and rotational diffusion of the ligands, TMCgen focuses on the key geometric degrees of freedom of transition metal complexes. TMCgen shows strong performance in generating accurate coordination environments on a diverse set of experimentally derived bioinorganic and organometallic complexes while requiring only few inference steps, enabling efficient generation. Our results demonstrate the potential of manifold-based generative modeling for data-efficient geometry generation, paving the way for property-conditioned design of transition metal complexes.

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