Using neural networks for (13)c NMR chemical shift prediction-comparison with traditional methods.

Abstract Interpretation of 13 C chemical shifts is essential for structure elucidation of organic molecules by NMR. In this article, we present an improved neural network approach and compare its performance to that of commonly used approaches. Specifically, our recently proposed neural network ( J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 2000, 40, 1169–1176) is improved by introducing an extended hybrid numerical description of the carbon atom environment, resulting in a standard deviation (std. dev.) of 2.4 ppm for an independent test data set of ∼42,500 carbons. Thus, this neural network allows fast and accurate 13 C NMR chemical shift prediction without the necessity of access to molecule or fragment d…