THE KNOT THEORY OF MOLECULES

被引：31

作者：

Sumners, D. W. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Florida State Univ, Dept Math, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL CHEMISTRY | 1987年 / 1卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1007/BF01205335

中图分类号：

O6 [化学];

学科分类号：

0703 ;

摘要：

Macromolecules (such as polymethelyene and DNA) are large and flexible, and can present themselves in 3-space in topologically interesting ways. The branch of topology known as knot theory is the mathematical study of flexible graphs in 3- space. Knot theory can be used to quantify and compare the various configurations of large molecules, and to study the various spatial isomers of molecules which have complicated molecular graphs.

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