Product Description: This volume presents the fundamentals of graph theory and then goes on to discuss specific chemical applications. Chapter 1 provides a historical setting for the current upsurge of interest in chemical graph theory. chapter 2 gives a full background of the basic ideas and mathematical formalism of graph theory and includes such chemically relevant notions as connectedness, graph matrix representations, metric properties, symmetry and operations on graphs...read more

Product Description: This volume is concerned with applications of graph theory to the study of chemical kinetics and reaction mechanisms. Methods of handling kinetic data are explained with emphasis on the derivation of rate laws and related problems...read more

Product Description: In chapter 1, after an outline of some historical aspects of the use of symmetry in chemistry is given, the scene is set by introducing a number of group theoretical techniques that have been employed by chemists. Chapter 2 considers in detail the nature and the differing types of groups that have been employed by chemists and others in their description of chemical systems...read more

Product Description: In modern times, group-theoretical principles have been exploited in the study of atomic and molecular systems, electronic and vibrational spectra of all kinds, a wide variety of thermodynamic systems, chemical reactions, the enumeration of a host of differing chemical species, and the chemical combinatorial problems of many kinds...read more

Product Description: Over the last decade, increased attention to reaction dynamics, combined with the intensive application of computers in chemical studies, mathematical modeling of chemical processes, and mechanistic studies has brought graph theory to the forefront of research...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A wide variety of topological principles and theorems have now been exploited in the chemical context. For instance, topology has been extensively applied in the study of chemically linked and knotted structures, and also in the study of many biologically significant molecules such as proteins and DNA...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Topology is becoming increasingly important in chemistry because of its rapidly growing number of applications. Here, its many uses are reviewed and the authors anticipate what future developments might bring. This work shows how significant new insights can be gained by representing molecular species as topological structures known as topographs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The contemporary scientific method is built on reductionism. The surprising finding that this paradigm has limits gave rise to the concept of complexity. This book presents the new science of complexity by presenting diverse concepts from the analyses of a wide range of real world systems (chemical, biochemical, biological, and ecological)...read more

Product Description: This volume covers the rapidly developing field of complexity studies with the underlying theme that complexity is to be found everywhere. The volume discusses many chemical applications and offers a comprehensive coverage of complexity and the ways in which it may be measured, complexity indices, complexity measures based on Shannon's information theory, and thermodynamic complexity...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to concentrate on elucidating chemical reactivity from the viewpoint of molecular topology. Describing the most fundamental structural patterns in molecules, topology and graph theory are regarded to be the ideal tools for exploring the relationships between the structure and the properties of chemical compounds...read more

Product Description: The Periodic Table effectively embraces the whole realm of chemistry within the confines of one comparatively simple and easily understood chart of the chemical elements. Over many years the Periodic Table has proven to be indispensable not only to chemists of all kinds but also to a host of other scientists, including biologists, geologists and physicists...read more