Mathematical chemistry

Croatica Chemica Acta

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 329-356

  Trinajstić, Nenad ^a   Gutman, Ivan ^b  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Mathematical chemistry; Mathematical chemistry journals; Roots of chemistry; Roots of mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042872985     PISSN: 00111643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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