Cyclooctane is mainly used in the synthesis of cyclooctanone, cyclooctanol, caprolactam and octanoic acid. At the same time, it can also be used as an intermediate in organic synthesis and a chemical reagent. By discussing the resistance distance between any two points of cyclooctane derivative Tn(C8), some invariants about resistance distance are obtained, such as Kirchhoff index, multiplicative degree-Kirchhoff index, and additive degree-Kirchhoff index. Topological index can help scholars better understand some physical and chemical properties of compounds, and we obtain the closed expressions of valency-based topological indices for Tn(C8), such as ABC index, GA index, etc.

The Kirchhoff index and degree-Kirchhoff index have attracted extensive attentions due to their wide applications in physics and chemistry. These indices have been computed for many interesting graphs, such as linear polyomino chain, linear / Möbius / cylinder hexagonal chain, and linear octagonal chain. In the present paper, we consider Möbius octagonal chain (Mn) and cylinder octagonal chain (M’n). Explicit closed-form formulae of the Kirchhoff index and the number of spanning trees are obtained for Mn and M’n.