Knots and graphs in chemistry

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 9, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 547-560

  Flapan, Erica ^a  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

KNOT THEORY; MOLECULAR GRAPHS;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 0032045285     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00092-1     Document Type: Article

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