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First author Nathaniel King-Smith, a graduate student in Cornish's lab, found that processed samples sitting in the lab for three months had significantly more latex floating on their surfaces.

"We pretrained the model on a large body of spectroscopic data -- effectively teaching the model general chemistry -- before fine-tuning it to predict these intricate transformations," said King-Smith.

"The reactome could change the way we think about organic chemistry," said Dr Emma King-Smith from Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, the paper's first author.

"High throughput chemistry has been a game-changer, but we believed there was a way to uncover a deeper understanding of chemical reactions than what can be observed from the initial results of a high throughput experiment," said King-Smith.

"Late-stage functionalisations can yield unpredictable results and current methods of modelling, including our own expert intuition, isn't perfect," said King-Smith.