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6912027 
Journal Article 
Calculating the symmetry of hexamethylcyclohexane 
Gholami, A; Ashrafi, AliR; Nazari, F; , 
2007 
1 
Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
ISSN: 1857-5552
EISSN: 1857-5625 
SOC CHEMISTS TECHNOLOGISTS MADECONIA 
SKOPJE 
115-124 
WOS:000255052700005 
An Euclidean graph associated with a molecule is defined by a weighted graph with adjacency matrix. Balasubramanian (1995) computed the Euclidean graphs and their automorphism groups for benzene, eclipsed and staggered forms of ethane, and eclipsed and staggered forms of ferrocene. It was shown by Balasubramanian that the molecular symmetry groups can be obtained as the automorphism groups of edge-weighted Euclidean graphs. In this paper we calculate the atom centers of hexamethylcyclohexane molecule using the chemistry package HyperChem and then compute its symmetry group.