Why are the kinked polyacenes more stable than the straight ones? A topological study and introduction of a new topological index of aromaticity

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1358-1366

  Ciesielski, Arkadiusz ^a,b   Krygowski, Tadeusz M ^b   Cyrański, Michal K ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY;

AROMATICITIES; BENZENOID HYDROCARBONS; CANONICAL STRUCTURE; INFINITE CHAINS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; RESONANCE ENERGIES; TOPOLOGICAL INDEX; TOPOLOGICAL MODELS;

TOPOLOGY;

POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBON;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 49449105815     PISSN: 15499596     EISSN: 1549960X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ci800061q     Document Type: Article

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