A unified structure theory for polycyclic conjugated hydrocarbons - A review of what every chemist should know!

Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 359-377

  Dias, Jerry Ray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aufbau principle; Benzenoid hydrocarbons; Elementary substructures; Excised internal structure circumscribing; Hexagonal to pentagonal ring contraction algorithm; Leapfrog algorithm; Periodic table set

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS;

AUFBAU PRINCIPLE; BENZENOID HYDROCARBONS; CONTRACTION ALGORITHMS; ELEMENTARY SUBSTRUCTURE; EXCISED INTERNAL STRUCTURE/CIRCUMSCRIBING; HEXAGONAL-TO-PENTAGONAL RING CONTRACTION ALGORITHM; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LEAPFROG ALGORITHM; PENTAGONAL RINGS; PERIODIC TABLE; PERIODIC TABLE SET; RING CONTRACTION;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON DERIVATIVE;

ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ISOMER; PREDICTION; THEORY;

EID: 0036025666     PISSN: 10406638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10406630290027028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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