Applications of isometric embeddings to chemical graphs

Abstract. Applications of isometric embeddings of benzenoid graphs are surveyed. Their embeddings into hypercubes provide methods for computing the Wiener index and the Szeged index, while embeddings into the Cartesian product of trees lead to fast algorithms. A new method for computing the hyperWiener index of partial cubes in general, and of benzenoid graphs and trees in particular, is also presented.