Sharp Upper Bounds on the Clar Number of Fullerene Graphs
The Clar number of a fullerene graph with n vertices is bounded above by ⌊n/6⌋ − 2 and this bound has been improved to ⌊n/6⌋ − 3 when n is congruent to 2 modulo 6. We can construct at least one fullerene graph attaining the upper bounds for every even number of vertices n ≥ 20 except n = 22 and n = 30.