Aspekte der Physik und Chemie polycyclischer aromatischer Kohlenwasserstoffe.

The physical and chemical properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons depend on the size (number of carbon centres) and the topology of the systems. Consequently structure/property relations can be treated as quantitative analogy models with size and topology as the independent variables. This class of compounds is the example par excellence to put forward a general view in chemistry, i.e. topological chemistry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]