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Beautiful pioneering paper proving the relationship between Kekule resonance structures in VB theory, and the rank of the adjacency matrix in MO theory, for unsaturated hydrocarbons whose connectivity can be described by an alternant graph. This insightful connection allows LH to unravel the link between the number of active carbon atoms in VB theory (i.e. hosting unpaired electrons) and the number of non-bonding orbitals (zero-eigenvaues, i.e. Nullity of adjacency matrix) in MO theory. Beautiful work!

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