A case of breakdown of the Kekulé-structure model

Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 240-246

  Gutman, Ivan ^a   Marković, Svetlana ^a   Jeremić, Svetlana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Fluoranthenes; Kekul structure; Localized double bond; Molecular geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956622983     PISSN: 10406638     EISSN: 15635333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10406638.2010.503162     Document Type: Article

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