1031 Vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenylenes IVAN GUTMAN* and BORIS FURTULA** Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, P. O. Box 60, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia (Received 12 December 2011) Abstract. Several recently published papers report expressions for various vertex-degree-based molecular structure descriptors of benzenoid systems and phenyl...

A large number of local aromaticity indices for the benzenoid rings in polyaromatic hydrocarbons is computed. The results are interpreted, supporting Clar's hypothesis, and mutual correlations are investigated. It is shown that there are good correlations between all indices that strictly allow comparing benzenoid character. Poor correlations are found with NICS. A rationale is offered, yieldin...

This paper is concerned with the general atom-bond sum-connectivity index ABSγ, which a generalization of recently proposed index, where γ any real number. For connected graph G more than two vertices, number ABSγ(G) defined as sum (1−2(dx+dy)−1)γ over all edges xy G, dx and dy represent degrees vertices x y respectively. −10≤γ≤10, significance ABSγ examined on data set twenty-five benzenoid hy...

The spectral moments of the edge adjacency matrix recently have been successfully employed in quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies of alkanes, alkyl halides, benzyl alcohols, and cycloalkanes.1-3 In this work we examined spectral moments of the edge adjacency matrix of benzenoid hydrocarbons. We designed combinatoria...

Our investigations are motivated by recent papers concerning the spectral moments of the edge-adjacency matrix, which were successfully employed in QSAR and QSPR studies of different classes of compounds [Estrada, E. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1996, 36, 844-849; 1997, 37, 320-328; 1998, 38, 23-27]. In this work, the evaluation of the 10th spectral moment of the vertex-adjacency matrix for pheny...

Measures of the irregularity of chemical graphs could be helpful for QSAR/QSPR studies and for the descriptive purposes of biological and chemical properties, such as melting and boiling points, toxicity and resistance. Here we consider the following four established irregularity measures: the irregularity index by Albertson, the total irregularity, the variance of vertex degrees and the Collat...

It has been shown by TE NIJENHUIS and BERENDS2 that the benzenoid (or better: o-quinoid) subnucleus of alloxazines can be attacked photochemically. We found that with flavins the reaction products bear a hydroxyl group either in the 6 or in the 9 position of the benzenoid nucleus. The reactive species is the protonated flavin, the rate of the reaction has an optimum at pH 0 — 1. At still lower ...

In this note we present some new results on distances in benzenoids. An algorithm is presented which, for a given benzenoid system G bounded by a simple circuit 2 with n vertices, computes the Wiener index of G in O(n) time. Also we show that benzenoid systems have a convenient dismantling scheme, which can be derived by applying breadth-first search to their dual graphs. Our last result deals ...

The Clar aromatic sextet theory predicts that the intensity of cyclic conjugation in chevron-type benzenoid hydrocarbons monotonically decreases along the central chain. This regularity has been tested by means of several independent theoretical methods (by the energy effects of the respective sixmembered rings, as well as by their HOMA, NICS, and SCI values, calculated at the B3LYP/6-311G(d,p)...

Among topological descriptors, connectivity indices are very important and they have a prominent role in chemistry. One of them is atom-bond connectivity (ABC) index of a connected graph G=(V,E) and defined as where d denotes the degree of vertex v of G, that introduced by Furtula v and et.al. Also, in 1997, Sharma, Goswami and Madan introduced the eccentric connectivity index of the molecular ...