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In order to appreciate properly the impact of Woodward and Hoffmann’s The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry [1] on contemporary chemical thinking, let us look back to the early nineteen-sixties and recall the state of the art of mechanism elucidation at that time.
Keywords
- High Occupy Molecular Orbital
- Lower Unoccupied Molecular Orbital
- Mirror Plane
- Nodal Plane
- Symmetry Element
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Halevi, E.A. (1992). The Woodward-Hoffmann Rules in Perspective. In: Halevi, E.A. (eds) Orbital Symmetry and Reaction Mechanism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83568-1_1
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