English Explanatory Dictionary

Woodward-Hoffmann rules

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Woodward-Hoffmann rules

Etymology

From Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffman, American chemists.

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