FIZIKA A 3 (1994) 2, 61-75

AROMATIC PROPERTIES OF FULLY-BENZENOID HYDROCARBONS

MILAN RANDIĆ^*, DOUGLAS J. KLEIN, HONGYAO ZHU, NENAD TRINAJSTIĆ^** and TOMISLAV ŽIVKOVIĆ^**
Theoretical Chemical Physics Group, Texas A & M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX 77553-1675, U.S.A.
^*Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University, Des Moines, IA 50311, U.S.A.
^**Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička c. 54, 41001 Zagreb, Croatia

Received 21 June 1994

We consider a family of structurally closely related fully-benzenoid hydrocarbons of increasing number of fused benzene rings. Local and global aromatic properties of such molecules are investigated with a particular interest in investigating the role of the finite size of such molecules in modelling the high-polymer or even graphite. An interesting alternation of local properties for benzene rings in a similar environment was observed.

UDC 539.21
PACS 31.20.-d

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