ABSTRACT
Algebraic chemistry (AC) is a short name appropriate for any approach to chemistry that relies more on the exploitation of numerical patterns in experimental data than on deep quantum mechanical concepts and the complex computer calculations they often require. The particular realization of AC described takes advantage of measured ionization potentials of all elements. Chemistry presents many problems that seem very difficult to solve, even with the most powerful of computational resources. That situation motivates the present effort to develop algebraic tools for analysis of chemical situations. The population-generic IPs exhibit a great deal of regularity and pattern. It is an intriguing and on-going task to understand what the patterns are exactly and why they are. Practical success with AC may encourage new work in theoretical physics, especially in quantum mechanics and in relativity theory.
