LARC: Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework
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| author | Baker, Frazier N. Adu-Ampratwum, Daniel Averly, Reza Yu, Botao Sun, Huan Ning, Xia |
| author_facet | Baker, Frazier N. Adu-Ampratwum, Daniel Averly, Reza Yu, Botao Sun, Huan Ning, Xia |
| contents | Large language model (LLM) agent evaluators leverage specialized tools to ground the rational decision-making of LLMs, making them well-suited to aid in scientific discoveries, such as constrained retrosynthesis planning. Constrained retrosynthesis planning is an essential, yet challenging, process within chemistry for identifying synthetic routes from commercially available starting materials to desired target molecules, subject to practical constraints. Here, we present LARC, the first LLM-based Agentic framework for Retrosynthesis planning under Constraints. LARC incorporates agentic constraint evaluation, through an Agent-as-a-Judge, directly into the retrosynthesis planning process, using agentic feedback grounded in tool-based reasoning to guide and constrain route generation. We rigorously evaluate LARC on a carefully curated set of 48 constrained retrosynthesis planning tasks across 3 constraint types. LARC achieves a 72.9% success rate on these tasks, vastly outperforming LLM baselines and approaching human expert-level success in substantially less time. The LARC framework is extensible, and serves as a first step towards an effective agentic tool or a co-scientist to human experts for constrained retrosynthesis. |
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| spellingShingle | LARC: Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework Baker, Frazier N. Adu-Ampratwum, Daniel Averly, Reza Yu, Botao Sun, Huan Ning, Xia Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Large language model (LLM) agent evaluators leverage specialized tools to ground the rational decision-making of LLMs, making them well-suited to aid in scientific discoveries, such as constrained retrosynthesis planning. Constrained retrosynthesis planning is an essential, yet challenging, process within chemistry for identifying synthetic routes from commercially available starting materials to desired target molecules, subject to practical constraints. Here, we present LARC, the first LLM-based Agentic framework for Retrosynthesis planning under Constraints. LARC incorporates agentic constraint evaluation, through an Agent-as-a-Judge, directly into the retrosynthesis planning process, using agentic feedback grounded in tool-based reasoning to guide and constrain route generation. We rigorously evaluate LARC on a carefully curated set of 48 constrained retrosynthesis planning tasks across 3 constraint types. LARC achieves a 72.9% success rate on these tasks, vastly outperforming LLM baselines and approaching human expert-level success in substantially less time. The LARC framework is extensible, and serves as a first step towards an effective agentic tool or a co-scientist to human experts for constrained retrosynthesis. |
| title | LARC: Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11860 |