Heats of formation and strain energies for [CH]8isomers calculated by all-valence-electron semi-empirical SCF–MO theories

Abstract
Theoretical heats of formation and strain energies of all the possible [CH]8 isomers were calculated by the MINDO/1 method, and were found to be in good agreement with the experimental data and the relative stability of these hydrocarbons estimated by thermal interconversion.