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A289159
Number of unlabeled connected simple graphs with n nodes of degree 4 or less, except trees and 4-regular graphs.
1
0, 0, 1, 4, 17, 72, 342, 1905, 12156, 89268, 738911, 6798758, 68520038, 748502910, 8788173335, 110193643134, 1468070949946, 20694573672876, 307578336064984, 4805384561143819, 78708210390090371, 1348365584611572634, 24108682771962822336, 449043803118075490633
OFFSET
1,4
COMMENTS
Also number of saturated cyclic hydrocarbons (cycloalkanes and alkyl cycloalkanes) with n carbon atoms satisfying the octet rule. Stereoisomerism is not taken into account. Some of the drawn structures may or may not exist due to their strained geometries.
FORMULA
a(n) = A121941(n) - A006820(n) - A000602(n).
a(n) = A287424(n) - A000602(n).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Natan Arie Consigli, Jul 07 2017
EXTENSIONS
a(0) removed and a(16)-a(24) from Andrew Howroyd, Mar 20 2020
STATUS
approved