Dias, Jerry

Jerry Ray Dias, Molecular Orbital Calculations Using Chemical Graph Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1993. 

Jerry Dias, a chemist at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, has devised a periodic classification of a class of organic molecules called benzenoid aromatic hydrocarbons, of which naphthalene, Cj Hg, is the simplest example (figure 1.10). By analogy with Johann Dobereiner s triads of elements, described in chapter 2, these molecules can be sorted into groups of three in which the central molecule has a total number of carbon and hydrogen atoms that is the mean of the flanking entries, both downward and across the table. This periodic scheme has been apphed to making a systematic study of the properties of benzenoid aromatic hydrocarbons, which has led to the predictions of the stabihty and reactivity of many of their isomers. 

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