What it measures

2,700+ curated chemistry questions spanning organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, computational, and chemical safety.

Reading the measurement

Ask whether the evaluation rewards recalling a fact, constructing a model, running an experiment or supporting a discovery. Those tasks require different evidence. For research claims, inspect reproducibility, uncertainty and what was actually checked.

Published evaluation

Published model comparison in the paper source archive, performance_table.tex. Native accuracy fractions are converted to percentages; the full benchmark and human-evaluation subset remain distinct. ReAct and temperature variants are retained.

Where this fits in an evaluation suite

A correct multiple-choice answer and a supported scientific contribution demand different evidence. Check whether the score rewards a proposal, an executed experiment, or a completed research target.

Start with a capability hypothesis, then choose a second test with a different failure mode. Keep the checkpoint, reasoning effort, agent tools, sampling policy, and scoring procedure fixed when measuring a training intervention. Record failures and missing outputs in the denominator.

A reproducible comparison

Published model comparison in the paper source archive, performance_table.tex. Native accuracy fractions are converted to percentages; the full benchmark and human-evaluation subset remain distinct. ReAct and temperature variants are retained.

Publish the exact run configuration, item coverage, score units, and available uncertainty. If a source supplies only an aggregate or a single run, preserve that limit. A new model name or a rounded score alone does not establish a capability improvement.

PRIMARY EVIDENCE & FURTHER READING

  1. Are large language models superhuman chemists? — published result table ↗

    Adrian Mirza, Nawaf Alampara, Sreekanth Kunchapu, Martiño Ríos-García, Benedict Emoekabu, Aswanth Krishnan et al. · 2024

    All 35 authors

    Adrian Mirza, Nawaf Alampara, Sreekanth Kunchapu, Martiño Ríos-García, Benedict Emoekabu, Aswanth Krishnan, Tanya Gupta, Mara Schilling-Wilhelmi, Macjonathan Okereke, Anagha Aneesh, Amir Mohammad Elahi, Mehrdad Asgari, Juliane Eberhardt, Hani M. Elbeheiry, María Victoria Gil, Maximilian Greiner, Caroline T. Holick, Christina Glaubitz, Tim Hoffmann, Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Lea C. Klepsch, Yannik Köster, Fabian Alexander Kreth, Jakob Meyer, Santiago Miret, Jan Matthias Peschel, Michael Ringleb, Nicole Roesner, Johanna Schreiber, Ulrich S. Schubert, Leanne M. Stafast, Dinga Wonanke, Michael Pieler, Philippe Schwaller, Kevin Maik Jablonka

Reviewed 2026-10-26. Explanation and interpretation by RLTasks. Benchmark ownership remains with its original authors.