Numerical Kekulé structures of fullerenes and partitioning of π-electrons to pentagonal and hexagonal rings

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 897-904

  Randić, Milan ^a,d,e   Kroto, Harry W ^b   Vukičević, Damir ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^d Department of Mathematics and Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^e DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRONS; FULLERENES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

HEXAGONAL RINGS; SCHLEGEL DIAGRAM; VALENCE STRUCTURES;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 34250885223     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci600484u     Document Type: Article

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