The Clar formulas of a benzenoid system and the resonance graph

Discrete Applied Mathematics

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2565-2569

  Salem, Khaled ^a   Klavžar, Sandi ^b,c   Vesel, Aleksander ^c   Žigert, Petra ^c  

^a BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN EGYPT   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Benzenoid system; Clar formula; Resonance graph; Resonant set

Indexed keywords

BENZENOID SYSTEM; CLAR FORMULA; HYPERCUBE; RESONANT SET; SUB-GRAPHS;

MOLECULAR GRAPHICS; RESONANCE;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 67349222050     PISSN: 0166218X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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