Molecular Irregularity Indices of Nanostar, Fullerene, and Polymer Dendrimers

Dendrimers are highly branched organic macromolecules with successive layers of branch units surrounding a central core. Some properties like toxicity, entropy, and heats of vaporization of these dendrimers can be forecasted using topological indices. The present article is devoted to study of irregularity indices of three well-known classes of dendrimers, namely, nanostar dendrimer D[p], fullerene dendrimer NS4[p], and polymer dendrimerNS5[p], where p is the step size. We also see the relation of irregularity of these dendrimers on the step size graphically.

Critical Comments on “Assessment of the Thermodynamic Properties of DL-p-Mentha-1,8-diene, 4-Isopropyl-1-Methylcyclohexene (DL-Limonene) by Inverse Gas Chromatography (IGC)”

A polemic is given regarding the calculated thermodynamic quantities reported in the published paper by Farschi and coworkers. The graph used to calculate the molar heat of sorption of organic probe molecules onto the liquid DL-limonene stationary phase erroneously plots the reciprocal of the centigrade temperatures, rather than the reciprocal of the Kelvin temperatures. Molar heats of vaporization of the organic probe molecules reported in the paper are abnormally small and are not in accord with published values determined from calorimetric and vapor pressure measurements.

Computational Analysis of Imbalance-Based Irregularity Indices of Boron Nanotubes

. Molecular topology provides a basis for the correlation of physical as well as chemical properties of a certain molecule. Irregularity indices are used as functions in the statistical analysis of the topological properties of certain molecular graphs and complex networks, and hence help us to correlate properties like enthalpy, heats of vaporization, and boiling points etc. with the molecular structure. In this article we are interested in formulating closed forms of imbalance-based irregularity measures of boron nanotubes. These tubes are known as α-boron nanotube, triangular boron nanotubes, and tri-hexagonal boron nanotubes. We also compare our results graphically and come up with the conclusion that alpha boron tubes are the most irregular with respect to most of the irregularity indices.