Woodward-hoffmann-rules Definition

noun

(chemistry) A set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions.

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Origin of Woodward-hoffmann-rules

  • From Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffman, American chemists.

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