A NOTE ON THE NUMBER OF SPANNING-TREES IN BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE

Authors
TRINAJSTIC N MIHALIC Z HARRIS FE
Citation
N. Trinajstic et al., A NOTE ON THE NUMBER OF SPANNING-TREES IN BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE, International journal of quantum chemistry, 1994, pp. 525-528
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Physical
Journal title
International journal of quantum chemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
00207608
Year of publication
1994
Supplement
28
Pages
525 - 528
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7608(1994):<525:ANOTNO>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
A ''pedestrian'' approach is used to enumerate the spanning trees in b uckminsterfullerene. The approach is called ''pedestrian'' because cal culations were carried out by hand and pocket calculator. The number o f spanning trees obtained for buckminsterfullerene is 375,291,866,372, 898,816,000, a number identical to the value reported by Brown et al. [J. Comput. Chem. 12, 1118 (1991)] who used a computationally more inv olved approach. (C) 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.