Croatica Chemica Acta, Vol. 98 No. 2, 2025.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5562/cca4161
Metaphysics of Systems: Complexity, Parent System, and the Graph-theoretical Interpretation of Chemical Reaction Mechanisms
Hrvoj Vančik
; Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Horvatovac 102a, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Abstract
The problem of the definition of the category of system as formulated by Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy is investigated by using the chemical graph theory. General approach to the system within the metaphysical frame is based on the model in which the mechanistic scheme for the cyclopropylcarbinyl network of reactions is used as an example of the abstraction of the category of system. Here, the chemical graph theory is extended to the studies of the organic reaction mechanisms. The relationship between diversity and complexity, as well as the definition of the parent system is discussed.
Keywords
theory of complexity; system theory; chemical graphs; organic reaction mechanisms
Hrčak ID:
333183
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Publication date:
3.2.2025.
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