Abstract
Let G be a molecular graph, n the number of its vertices and φ( G, x) its characteristic polynomial. Already in 1940 Coulson expressed the total π-electron energy of conjugated unsaturated molecules in terms of the function F( x)= n−i xφ ′( G,i x)/ φ( G,i x). Recently, the Coulson function F( x) found applications also in modeling the structure-dependence of physico-chemical properties of alkanes. We now analyze the Coulson function and establish some of its hitherto unnoticed features, in particular its relations with the Hosoya index.
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