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%I M1604 N0627 #26 Jan 22 2018 19:26:12
%S 1,2,6,14,38,97,260,688,1856,4994,13550,36791,100302,273824,749316,
%T 2053247,5635266,15484532,42599485,117312742,323373356,892139389,
%U 2463252315,6806148956,18818714543,52065725034,144135111504,399232819042,1106385615943
%N Number of glycols with n carbon atoms.
%D N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).
%D N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
%H H. R. Henze and C. M. Blair, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja01316a050">The number of structural isomers of the more important types of aliphatic compounds</a>, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 56 (1) (1934), 157-157.
%H H. R. Henze and C. M. Blair, <a href="/A000632/a000632.pdf">The number of structural isomers of the more important types of aliphatic compounds</a>, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 56 (1) (1934), 157-157. (Annotated scanned copy)
%H R. C. Read, <a href="/A000598/a000598.pdf">The Enumeration of Acyclic Chemical Compounds</a>, pp. 25-61 of A. T. Balaban, ed., Chemical Applications of Graph Theory, Ac. Press, 1976. [Annotated scanned copy] See p. 28.
%F a(n) = A000636(n) - A000642(n). - _Sean A. Irvine_, Nov 18 2016
%Y Cf. A000636, A000642.
%K nonn
%O 2,2
%A _N. J. A. Sloane_
%E More terms from _Sean A. Irvine_, Nov 18 2016