Chemical Graph Theory: Introduction and Fundamentals

Chemical Graph Theory: Introduction and Fundamentals
ISBN-10
1351461591
ISBN-13
9781351461597
Category
Science
Pages
300
Language
English
Published
2018-05-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
D Bonchev

Description

This volume presents the fundamentals of graph theory and then goes on to discuss specific chemical applications. Chapter 1 provides a historical setting for the current upsurge of interest in chemical graph theory. chapter 2 gives a full background of the basic ideas and mathematical formalism of graph theory and includes such chemically relevant notions as connectedness, graph matrix representations, metric properties, symmetry and operations on graphs. This is followed by a discussion on chemical nomenclature and the trends in its rationalization by using graph theory, which has important implications for the storage and retrieval of chemical information. This volume also contains a detailed discussion of the relevance of graph-theoretical polynomials; it describes methodologies for the enumeration of isomers, incorporating the classical Polya method, as well as more recent approaches.

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