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Clar Formulas: How to Draw and How not to Draw Formulas of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Alexandru T. Balaban Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
Pages 83-89 | Published online: 24 Jun 2010

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Mihai V. Putz & Marina A. Tudoran. (2016) Carbon-based specific adjacency-in-bonding (SAIB) isomerism driving aromaticity. Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 24:12, pages 733-748.
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Ivan Gutman & Sonja Stanković. (2007) TESTING THE Y–RULE IN CLAR THEORY. Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 27:5, pages 425-436.
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Ivan Gutman & Yosadara Ruiz-Morales. (2007) NOTE ON THE Y-RULE IN CLAR THEORY. Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 27:1, pages 41-49.
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Slavko Radenković & Željko Tomović. (2022) Tuning the Structure and Properties of N‐doped Positively Charged Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. ChemPhysChem 23:12.
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Yang Wang. (2022) Quantitative Resonance Theory Based on the Clar Sextet Model. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 126:1, pages 164-176.
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Slavko Radenković. (2020) A method for analyzing the cyclic electron delocalization interaction between different rings in polycyclic molecules. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 121:9.
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E. V. Rodionova, O. B. Tomilin & L. V. Fomina. (2021) Modeling (Prediction) of the Structure of Possible Transition States of Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Russian Journal of Organic Chemistry 57:2, pages 135-142.
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Natalia Montoya Sánchez & Arno de Klerk. 2021. Catalytic and Noncatalytic Upgrading of Oils. Catalytic and Noncatalytic Upgrading of Oils 189 209 .
Marija Antić, Slađana Đorđević, Boris Furtula & Slavko Radenković. (2019) Magnetically Induced Current Density in Nonplanar Fully Benzenoid Hydrocarbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 124:2, pages 371-378.
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Puthannur K. Anjalikrishna, Cherumuttathu H. Suresh & Shridhar R. Gadre. (2019) Electrostatic Topographical Viewpoint of π-Conjugation and Aromaticity of Hydrocarbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 123:46, pages 10139-10151.
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Timothy K. Dickens & Roger B. Mallion. (2018) Topological Ring-Currents and Clar Sextets in Fully Benzenoid Hydrocarbons. II. Large Structures Containing More than 18 Rings. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 122:45, pages 8865-8873.
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Timothy K. Dickens & Roger B. Mallion. (2018) Topological Ring-Currents and Clar Sextets in Fully Benzenoid Hydrocarbons I. Structures with Fewer than 18 Rings. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 122:45, pages 8858-8864.
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Milan Randić & Alexandru T. Balaban. (2018) Local aromaticity and aromatic sextet theory beyond Clar. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 118:17, pages e25657.
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Natalia Montoya Sánchez & Arno de Klerk. (2018) Autoxidation of aromatics. Applied Petrochemical Research 8:2, pages 55-78.
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Marija Antić, Boris Furtula & Slavko Radenković. (2017) Aromaticity of Nonplanar Fully Benzenoid Hydrocarbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 121:18, pages 3616-3626.
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Erin M. Adkins & J. Houston Miller. (2017) Towards a taxonomy of topology for polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons: linking electronic and molecular structure. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19:41, pages 28458-28469.
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Wei Wei, Chenchen Li, Tao Wang, Dian Liu & Zunting Zhang. (2016) Synthesis of polybenzoquinazolines via an intramolecular dehydration of photocyclization. Tetrahedron 72:33, pages 5037-5046.
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Slavko Radenković, Jelena Kojić, Jelena Petronijević & Marija Antić. (2014) Effect of Benzo-Annelation on Local Aromaticity in Heterocyclic Conjugated Compounds. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 118:49, pages 11591-11601.
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Alexandru T. Balaban. (2011) Using Clar sextets for two- and three-dimensional aromatic systems. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13:46, pages 20649.
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Alexandru T. Balaban & Milan Randić. 2011. Carbon Bonding and Structures. Carbon Bonding and Structures 159 204 .
Damir Vukičević & Milan Randić. 2011. The Mathematics and Topology of Fullerenes. The Mathematics and Topology of Fullerenes 153 169 .
Alexandru T. Balaban & Douglas J. Klein. (2009) Claromatic Carbon Nanostructures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113:44, pages 19123-19133.
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Khaled Salem, Sandi Klavžar, Aleksander Vesel & Petra Žigert. (2009) The Clar formulas of a benzenoid system and the resonance graph. Discrete Applied Mathematics 157:11, pages 2565-2569.
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Alexandru T. Balaban, Matevž Pompe & Milan Randić. (2008) π-Electron Partitions, Signatures, and Clar Structures of Selected Benzenoid Hydrocarbons. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 112:17, pages 4148-4157.
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Alexandru T. Balaban & Milan Randić. (2008) Correlations between various ways of accounting for the distribution of π-electrons in benzenoids. New Journal of Chemistry 32:6, pages 1071.
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Alexandru T. Balaban & Milan Randić. (2008) Ring signatures for benzenoids with up to seven rings, Part 2: Pericondensed systems. International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 108:5, pages 898-926.
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T. S. Balaban, M. C. Balaban, S. Malik, F. Hennrich, R. Fischer, H. Rösner & M. M. Kappes. (2006) Polyacylation of Single‐Walled Nanotubes under Friedel–Crafts Conditions: An Efficient Method for Functionalizing, Purifying, Decorating, and Linking Carbon Allotropes. Advanced Materials 18:20, pages 2763-2767.
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Alexandru T. Balaban & Thomas G. Schmalz. (2006) Strain-Free Sextet-Resonant Benzenoids and Their Antisextet Dualists. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 46:4, pages 1563-1579.
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Alexandru T. Balaban, Paul v. R. Schleyer & Henry S. Rzepa. (2005) Crocker, Not Armit and Robinson, Begat the Six Aromatic Electrons. Chemical Reviews 105:10, pages 3436-3447.
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Henry S. Rzepa. (2005) Möbius Aromaticity and Delocalization. Chemical Reviews 105:10, pages 3697-3715.
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