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A Claim on the Development of the Frontier Orbital Explanation of Electrocyclic Reactions
Author(s) -
Hoffmann Roald
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200461440
Subject(s) - frontier , chemistry , computational chemistry , political science , law
The well‐known Woodward–Hoffmann rules explain how the feasibility and stereochemical outcome of pericyclic reactions are governed by the symmetry properties of the molecular orbitals of the reactants and products. Triggered by a recent claim by E. J. Corey, Roald Hoffmann recalls the first steps in the development of this theory.