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Chemists have stretched the meaning of topology to cover situations never imagined by their mathematical colleagues. Michelle Francl wonders if we have reached breaking point?

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Figure 1: The fifty words most frequently found in the titles and abstracts of journal articles that contained the terms 'topology' or 'topological' appearing in the chemical literature in 2008.

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  1. Michelle Francl is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010–2899, USA. mfrancl@brynmawr.edu,

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Francl, M. Stretching topology. Nature Chem 1, 334–335 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.302

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