Woodward-Hoffmann rules

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Etymology

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From Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffman, American chemists.

Noun

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Woodward-Hoffmann rules pl (plural only)

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