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Chemical relevance of a pure combinatorial problem: Isomers of conjugated polyenes

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A correspondence is pointed out between the triangulation of convex polygons on the one hand and the enumeration of isomers of conjugated polyenes on the other.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The University of Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway

    S. J. Cyvin, B. N. Cyvin & J. Brunvoll

  2. Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

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Cyvin, S.J., Lloyd, E.K., Cyvin, B.N. et al. Chemical relevance of a pure combinatorial problem: Isomers of conjugated polyenes. Struct Chem 7, 183–186 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02281229

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