Partition of $$\pi $$ π -electrons among the faces of polyhedral carbon clusters

Abstract

We apply the concepts of importance and redundancy to compute and analyze the partition of \(\pi \)-electrons among faces of actual and potential polyhedral carbon clusters. In particular, we present explicit formulas and investigate asymptotic behavior of total and average \(\pi \)-electron content of all faces of prisms and n-barrels. We also discuss the observed deviations from the uniform distribution and show that the patterns of net migration of \(\pi \)-electrons differ from those computed for narrow nanotubical fullerenes. Some possible directions of future work are also indicated.