fukuyamabench-5d6e15e0·1 events·first seen Aliases: FukuyamaBench
Researchers introduce a large-scale reaction mechanism reasoning dataset and FukuyamaBench, a benchmark derived from Fukuyama's Advanced Organic Reaction Mechanism textbook, to evaluate step-by-step chemical mechanism inference in LLMs. A fine-tuned Qwen3-30B-A3B model achieves 8.3% exact pathway match on FukuyamaBench Set A, outperforming the specialized FlowER model at 5.1%. The work argues that mechanism-aware training addresses hallucinations and physical inconsistencies in current chemical LLMs, which typically focus only on coarse-grained product prediction and retrosynthesis.