Think about adding templating when generating TS guesses

[nateharms]

From reading about other tools, many will template when generating a TS guess. From the AutoTS paper

In addition to interpolation, we have the ability to use geometric information from a previously located TS. We refer to this approach as templating and to the predefined TS geometries as templates. TS templates, along with the reactant and product geometries that they connect (as verified by an IRC calculation), are stored in an auxiliary computer file. Several string representations of the input reaction are generated and used to search this template file for matching reactions. Each representation is of a particular order, i, and is constructed by generating SMILES strings for the atoms in the reaction center plus all (i – 1)th nearest neighbors. We tend to use only three orders starting with i = 1. The SMILES patterns of the reactant and product structures are combined with the symbol “≫” as in reaction SMILES. The algorithm has the preference for matches at the highest order attainable.
Once it is recognized that a usable template exists, we extract it from the file and compute an atom correspondence between the input structures and template structures. This is done by utilizing an MCS algorithm, which computes a bijection for the reaction center atoms. The reaction matching described above guarantees that the reaction center and possibly some number of neighbors make up a substructure shared between the reactant and product.