Upper and Lower Bounds for the Number of Conjugated Patterns in Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Compounds
Tetsuo Morikawa · Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A · 1994
Abstract It is possible to regard two polygonal skeletons as the same in a special class of carbocyclic and heterocyclic compounds, if the one is reducible to the other by means of the contraction of cyclic subskeletons, and if the numbers of conjugated patterns in them are equal to each other. In such polygonal skeletons, three forms of cyclic subskeletons are defined; the one is called “alternate”, and the others, involving the one called “inclusive”, have a path (b, b), where (b) is a conjugated vertex connecting with three vertices. Successive eliminations of the cyclic subskeletons enable to estimate the upper and lower bounds for the number of conjugated patterns in a given polygonal skeleton.