Our investigations are motivated by recent papers concerning the spectral moments of the edge-adjacency
matrix, which were successfully employed in QSAR and QSPR studies of different classes of compounds
[Estrada, E. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci.
1996, 36, 844−849; 1997, 37, 320−328; 1998, 38, 23−27]. In this
work, the evaluation of the 10th spectral moment of the vertex-adjacency matrix for phenylenes is considered.
This is achieved by using the method of Hall [Hall, G. G. Theor. Chim. Acta
1986, 70, 323−332], which
was originally applied to benzenoid systems and then adopted for molecular graphs of phenylenes [Marković,
S.; Stajković, A. Theor.
Chem. Acc.
1997, 96, 256−260]. It is found that the 10th spectral moment can be
expressed in terms of 6 mutually independent invariants that can be easily deduced from the molecular
graph.