Strain-free sextet-resonant benzenoids and their antisextet dualists

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1563-1579

  Balaban, Alexandra T ^a   Schmalz, Thomas G ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; STRAIN;

BENZENOID RINGS; ENUMERATION; SEXTET-RESONANT BENZENOIDS (SRB);

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 33746870758     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci060007l     Document Type: Article

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