Kekuléan

See also: Kekulean

English

Etymology

From Kekulé +‎ -an.

Adjective

Kekuléan (comparative more Kekuléan, superlative most Kekuléan)

1. (chiefly chemistry) Pertaining to the system of structural formulae devised by Kekulé, especially the structure of benzene molecules.
   • 1992, Advances in the theory of benzenoid hydrocarbons II, Springer-Verlag, page 88:

     A Kekuléan benzenoid system possesses Kekulé structures (K > 0).

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 5:

     I stare carefully into the Kekuléan knot of the middle Dean's necktie.

   • 2011, HM Mulder, “Median Graphs. A Structure Theory”, in Advances in Interdisciplinary Applied Discrete Mathematics, page 119:

     Again the free bonds are grouped together to form a perfect matching. […] Such structures are known in the literature as Kekulean.