RetroMPA: A Molecular Property-Aware Auxiliary Framework for Enhancing Retrosynthesis Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16111v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:03:30 GMT
• Title: RetroMPA: A Molecular Property-Aware Auxiliary Framework for Enhancing Retrosynthesis Prediction
• Abstract summary: RetroMPA is a model-agnostic chemical filter designed to recalibrate and optimize the predictive pathways of existing algorithms.<n>RetroMPA consistently improves top-1 accuracy across eight representative retrosynthesis models by an average of 5.50% on USPTO-50K.<n>Wet-lab experiments provide preliminary support for the practical utility of the framework.
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• Abstract: Retrosynthesis is a cornerstone of drug discovery and organic synthesis. While data-driven deep learning models have shown remarkable progress, they autonomously learn reaction patterns from extensive datasets with limited integration of established chemical knowledge as priors. To address this limitation, we introduce RetroMPA, a molecular property-aware, post-hoc enhancement module that injects chemical knowledge into the retrosynthesis pipeline. Rather than functioning as an independent SMILES sequence generator, RetroMPA is a broadly applicable, model-agnostic chemical filter designed to recalibrate and optimize the predictive pathways of existing algorithms. This plug-and-play framework integrates seamlessly with a range of data-driven retrosynthesis methods, enhancing outputs without modifying model architecture or requiring resource-intensive retraining. By leveraging a property-aware latent embedding space, RetroMPA consistently improves top-1 accuracy across eight representative retrosynthesis models by an average of 5.50% on USPTO-50K. Furthermore, we validate its scalability on the large-scale USPTO-Full dataset, achieving an average improvement of about 2.03% across both template-based and template-free architectures. Wet-lab experiments provide preliminary support for the practical utility of the framework. These syntheses confirmed viable, previously unreported substrate combinations for classic reaction paradigms---specifically, Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, Bucherer reaction, and Friedel-Crafts acylation---suggesting that RetroMPA can operate beyond mere data fitting. The code is open-sourced at https://github.com/MengzhouLu/RetroMPA.

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