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How to Persuade Undergraduates to Use Chemical Graph Theory

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New techniques are presented that permit the use of chemical graph theory to obtain secular equations for small molecules. The new techniques significantly accelerate manual calculations. A previously unrecognized relationship between the characteristic polynomial for a Hückel annulene and the secular equation for the corresponding Mobius annulene is deduced. The power of the graph-theoretical approach to illuminate chemically useful generalizations at the Hückel level is exemplified.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, E4L 1G8, Canada

    Richard Francis Langler

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Langler, R.F. How to Persuade Undergraduates to Use Chemical Graph Theory. Chem. Educator 5, 171–174 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00897000394a

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