Differences in problem-solving ability among organic chemistry graduate students and faculty were studied within the domain of problems that involved the determination of the structure of a molecule from the molecular formula of the compound and a combination of IR and H NMR spectra. The participants’ performance on these tasks was compared across variables that included amount of research expe...

Does the abstract mathematics afford patterns for chemistry? It is supposed that mathematics has its own, autonomous criteria of development and that mathematical creativity cannot be progressed simply by a "blind" listing of possible tautologies. Simultaneously, applied findings in the independently developed mathematical areas are rather a rare case. In the present work, it has been shown tha...

In mathematical chemistry, a particular attention is given to degree-based graph invariant. The Zagrebpolynomial is one of the degree based polynomials considered in chemical graph theory. A dendrimer isan artificially manufactured or synthesized molecule built up from branched units called monomers. Inthis note, the first, second and third Zagreb poly...

Let graph energy is a graph--spectrum--based quantity‎, ‎introduced in the 1970s‎. ‎After a latent period of 20--30 years‎, ‎it became a popular topic of research both‎ ‎in mathematical chemistry and in ``pure'' spectral graph theory‎, ‎resulting in‎ ‎over 600 published papers‎. ‎Eventually‎, ‎scores of different graph energies have‎ ‎been conceived‎. ‎In this article we...

In Part II of a three-part series, we discuss two factors absent from textbooks general chemistry that are important in discussion teaching orbitals. First, atomic orbitals shown systematically to comprise algebraic formulae coordinates not one but four sets (spherical polar, paraboloidal, ellipsoidal, spheroconical coordinates). Each formula has its corresponding shape as surface constant ampl...