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Its primary function is to adeptly produce a molecular library tailored for specific properties. From this library, we can then identify molecules that inhibit AChE activity without adverse effects. These molecules serve as lead compounds, hastening AD treatment and concurrently enhancing the AI's cognitive abilities. In this study, we aim to fine-tune a VAE model pre-trained on the ZINC database using active compounds of AChE collected from Binding DB. Different from other molecular generation models, the PED can simultaneously perform both property prediction and molecule generation, consequently, it can generate molecules with intended properties without additional optimization process. Experiments of evaluation show that proposed model performs better than other methods benchmarked on the same data sets. The results indicated that the model learns a good representation of potential chemical space, it can well generate molecules with intended properties. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets confirmed PED's efficiency and efficacy. Furthermore, we also verified the binding ability of molecules to AChE through molecular docking. 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