The non-benzenoid aromatic D(5h) and enediolate C(2v) form of C5O5(2-) have been stabilized by hydrogen bonding with urea and 1,3-dimethylurea, respectively, in the host lattices of two novel crystalline inclusion compounds.

Non-alternant non-benzenoid hydrocarbons exhibit very different optical and electronic properties than their well-studied benzenoid analogues. However, preparing such structures with extended conjugation length, remains challenging. Herein, we report the synthesis of azuleno[2,1,8-ija]azulene derivatives using a two-step sequence involving four-fold aldol condensation between aromatic dialdehyd...

Titrations of actinomycin D (AMD) with dG and with dG-dC were monitored by circular dichroism at 380 nm and 470 nm. These wavelengths are sensitive predominantly to nucleotide binding processes at the benzenoid and quinoid portions, respectively, of the phenoxazone ring of the drug chromophore [Auer, H.E., Pawlowski-Konopnicki, B.E., Chiao, Y.C.C. & Krugh, T.R. (1978), Biopolymers, 17, 1891-191...

Despite the importance of benzoic acid (BA) as a precursor for a wide array of primary and secondary metabolites, its biosynthesis in plants has not been fully elucidated. BA formation from phenylalanine requires shortening of the C(3) side chain by two carbon units, which can occur by a non-β-oxidative route and/or a β-oxidative pathway analogous to the catabolism of fatty acids. Enzymes respo...

K e y w o r d s P l a n e graph, Outerplane graph, Bipartite graph, Perfect matching, Z-transformation graph. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N A graph G is a planar graph if it can be embedded in plane such that edges only intersect at their end vertices. A plane graph is such an embedding. A plane graph is called an outerplane graph if all vertices are lie on the boundary of the exterior face. A gra...

Applying the recently obtained distributive lattice structure on the set of 1-factors, we show that the resonance graphs of any benzenoid systems G, as well as of general plane (weakly) elementary bipartite graphs, are median graphs and thus extend greatly Klavžar et al.’s result. The n-dimensional vectors of nonnegative integers as a labelling for the 1-factors of G with n inner faces are desc...

Localized molecular orbitals for n-systems of conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons have been calculated using both intrinsic and external localization criteria relying only on molecular topology. For benzenoid aromatic compounds the intrinsic localized molecular orbital arrangement can always be associated to the Kekule structure of maximal Kekule index value. However hydrocarbons containing four...

We outline the construction of an algebraic (numerical) representation for Clar's valence formulas which in their geometrical form are illustrated with π-aromatic sextets as inscribed circles in benzenoid rings.