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A000631 Number of ethylene derivatives with n carbon atoms.
(Formerly M2490 N0987)
2
1, 1, 3, 5, 13, 27, 66, 153, 377, 914, 2281, 5690, 14397, 36564, 93650, 240916, 623338, 1619346, 4224993, 11062046, 29062341, 76581151, 202365823, 536113477, 1423665699, 3788843391, 10103901486, 26995498151, 72253682560, 193706542776 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

2,3

COMMENTS

Number of structural isomers of alkenes C_n H_{2n} with n carbon atoms.

REFERENCES

J. L. Faulon, D. Visco and D. Roe, Enumerating Molecules, In: Reviews in Computational Chemistry Vol. 21, Ed. K. Lipkowitz, Wiley-VCH, 2005.

H. R. Henze and C. M. Blair, The number of structural isomers of the more important types of aliphatic compounds, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 56 (1934), 157.

H. R. Henze and C. M. Blair, The number of structurally isomeric hydrocarbons of the ethylene series, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 55 (1933), 680-685.

C.-W. Lam, A Mathematical Relationship between the Number of Isomers of Alkenes and Alkynes: A Result Established from the Enumeration of Isomers of Alkenes from Alky Biradicals, J. Math. Chem., 23, 421 (1998).

R. C. Read, Some recent results in chemical enumeration, Lect. Notes Math. 303 (1972), 243-259.

R. C. Read, The Enumeration of Acyclic Chemical Compounds, pp. 25-61 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976; see p. 28.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. Trinajstich, Z. Jerievi, J. V. Knop, W. R. Muller and K. Szymanski, COMPUTER GENERATION OF ISOMERIC STRUCTURES, Pure & Appl. Chem., Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 379-39O, 1983.

LINKS

J. L. Faulon, D. Visco and D. Roe, Enumerating Molecules, In: Reviews in Computational Chemistry Vol. 21, Ed. K. Lipkowitz, Wiley-VCH, 2005.

FORMULA

a(n) = b(1)b(n-1) + b(2)b(n-2) + b(3)b(n-3) + ... + b(n/2)(b(n/2) + 1)/2 when n is even or b(1)b(n-1) + b(2)b(n-2) + b(3)b(n-3) + ... + b((n-1)/2)b((n + 1)/2) when n is odd, where b(n) = A000642(n). - Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Feb 24 2008

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A141630 A084173 A190570 * A026569 A035082 A005198

Adjacent sequences:  A000628 A000629 A000630 * A000632 A000633 A000634

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Herman Jamke (hermanjamke(AT)fastmail.fm), Feb 24 2008

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