Core electrons and hydrogen atoms in chemical graph theory |
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Authors: | Lionello Pogliani |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dipartimento di Chimica, Università della Calabria, via P. Bucci, Cubo 14 C, 87036 Rende, Italy |
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Abstract: | General and complete graphs have recently been used to free chemical graph theory, and especially molecular connectivity theory, from spurious concepts, which belonged to quantum chemistry with no direct counterpart in graph theory. Both types of graph concepts allow the encoding of multiple bonds, non-bonding electrons, and core electrons. Furthermore, they allow the encoding of the bonded hydrogen atoms, which are normally suppressed in chemical graphs. This suppression could sometimes have nasty consequences, like the impossibility to differentiate between compounds, whose hydrogen-suppressed chemical graphs are completely equivalent, like for the CH2F2 and BHF2 compounds. At the computational level the new graph concepts do not introduce any dramatic changes relatively to previous QSPR/QSAR studies. These concepts can nevertheless help in encoding the many electronic features of a molecule, achieving, as a bonus, an improved quality of the modeled properties, as it is here exemplified with a set of properties of different classes of compounds. |
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Keywords: | general graphs complete graphs hydrogen atoms molecular connectivity theory |
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