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With most carbon structures still unknown and undiscovered, it becomes increasingly important to find a way to discover, characterize, and understand them. This paper discusses the possible structures for all-carbon species in which each carbon obeys the octet rule. The number and structural diversity of such compounds strongly increases with the number of carbons: C2, 1; C3, 1; C4, 3; C5, 6; C6, 15. Only some of the C7 species were drawn -- merely 23 isomers were given. To guarantee structural uniqueness, names and visual inspection appear to be insufficient. Instead, a new method, using the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the structure's adjacency matrix and modified matrices, was introduced and then employed. With this we hoped to gain a better understanding of what was chemically reasonable and realizable for our produced structures. |
