Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, B07e (1983), 12 pp.
[Formerly: Publ. I.R.M.A. Strasbourg, 1983, 213/S-06, p.
70-81.]
>Werner Hässelbarth
A Combinatorial Description of Structure and Properties of
Chemical Compounds
Abstract.
Chemistry is concerned with relations between structure and properties
of chemical compounds. Such connections cannot be found by
investigating just
some single compounds but only by systematic comparison, involving
compounds of appropriate classes. Appropriate means that within such a
class the structure of compounds varies in a well-defined and lucid
fashion. Mappings between finite sets are particularly suitable for
defining and parametrizing variations of chemical structure.
Within this setting quite different problems can be stated and
treated. We are going to consider:
- the symmetry of substitution patterns;
- a cluster expansion of properties of composite systems.
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