Ordering of alkane isomers by means of connectivity indices

Abstract

The connectivity index of an organic molecule whose molecular graph is Gis defined as C(?)=?(?u?v)??where ?u is the degree of the vertex u in G, where the summation goes over all pairs of adjacent vertices of G and where ? is a pertinently chosen exponent. The usual value of ? is ?1/2, in which case ?=C(?1/2) is referred to as the Randic index. The ordering of isomeric alkanes according to ??follows the extent of branching of the carbon-atom skeleton. We now study the ordering of the constitutional isomers of alkanes with 6 through 10 carbon atoms with respect to C(?) for various values of the parameter ?. This ordering significantly depends on ?. The difference between the orderings with respect to ??and with respect to C(?) is measured by a function ??and the ?-dependence of ??was established.