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A323930
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (for precise definition see He and He, 1986).
8
1, 1, 3, 7, 22, 81, 331, 1436, 6510, 30129, 141512, 671538, 3210620, 15443871, 74662005, 362506902
OFFSET
1,3
REFERENCES
N. Trinajstić, S. Nikolić, J. V. Knop, W. R. Müller and K. Szymanski, Computational Chemical Graph Theory: Characterization, Enumeration, and Generation of Chemical Structures by Computer Methods, Ellis Horwood, 1991. [incorrectly gives a(12) = 671512 in Table 4.13]
LINKS
Björg N. Cyvin, Jon Brunvoll and Sven J. Cyvin, Enumeration of benzenoid systems and other polyhexes, p. 65-180 in: I. Gutman (ed.), Advances in the Theory of Benzenoid Hydrocarbons II, Springer, 1992.
Wenchen He and Wenjie He, Generation and enumeration of planar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Tetrahedron 42.19 (1986): 5291-5299. See Table 1.
FORMULA
a(n) = A018190(n) + A038140(n) + A038141(n). - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Feb 16 2023
CROSSREFS
A018190 is a very similar sequence with (as He and He remark) a slightly different definition. Cf. A000228, A038147.
Sequence in context: A111772 A233005 A018190 * A187982 A000228 A108070
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Feb 09 2019
EXTENSIONS
a(10)-a(16) from Cyvin, Brunvoll & Cyvin (Table 1) added by Andrey Zabolotskiy, Feb 08 2023
STATUS
approved