
The purpose of this chapter is to present basic concepts of graph theory [1] as applied to organic chemistry [2–6]. The importance of graph theory in this large branch of chemistry consists in the existence of the phenomena of the structural formula and its isomerism. Organic chemists have unconsciously used graph theory concepts for more than one hundred years, just as Moliere’s “bourgeois gentilhomme” was speaking prose without realizing it (cited after Ba-laban [7]).
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