The Woodward–Hoffmann rules (or the pericyclic selection rules) are a set of rules devised by Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann to rationalize or...

Burns Woodward prior to the development of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Corey wrote: "On May 4, 1964, I suggested to my colleague R. B. Woodward a simple...

Hoffmann's Extended Hückel method. The predictions of these rules, called the "Woodward–Hoffmann rules" were verified by many experiments. Hoffmann shared...

Acc. Chem. Res., Volume 1, Issue 1, 1968, Pages 17–22 Roald Hoffmann and Robert B. Woodward doi:10.1021/ar50001a003 Fleming, Ian. Frontier Orbitals and...

these interactions to better understand the conclusions of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Fukui realized that a good approximation for reactivity could...

determining molecular orbitals. With Robert Burns Woodward he developed the Woodward–Hoffmann rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms and their stereochemistry...

thermal [1,3] hydride shift, a hydride moves three atoms. The Woodward–Hoffmann rules dictate that it would proceed in an antarafacial shift. Although...

interact in the course of a pericyclic process has led to the Woodward–Hoffmann rules, a simple set of criteria to predict whether a pericyclic mechanism...

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applications to the Hückel method, to ligand field theory, and to the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Many university level textbooks on physical chemistry, quantum...

while the Woodward–Hoffmann methodology uses a large number of rules with the same consequences. One year following the Woodward–Hoffmann and Longuet-Higgins–Abrahmson...

used by Roald Hoffmann who developed, with Robert Burns Woodward, rules for elucidating reaction mechanisms (the Woodward–Hoffmann rules). He used pictures...

introduction of the correlation diagram approach to the study of Woodward-Hoffmann rules, and his introduction of nuclear permutation-inversion symmetry...

configuration Klopman–Salem equation Koopmans' theorem Ligand Woodward–Hoffmann rules Griffith, J. S. and L. E. Orgel. "Ligand Field Theory". Q. Rev...

computational justification for the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. To distinguish the original approach from Hoffmann's extension, the Hückel method is also...

mechanisms of various chemical reactions. Several empirical rules, like the Woodward–Hoffmann rules often come in handy while proposing a mechanism for a chemical...

reactions, such as the Cope rearrangement, can be predicted with the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and consideration of the preference for the chair transition state...

all pericyclic reactions, group transfer reactions must obey the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Group transfer reactions can be divided into two distinct subcategories:...

Insights from this work lead him and Roald Hoffmann to formulate the Woodward–Hoffmann rules for elucidating the stereochemistry of the products of organic...

photocycloadditions of 1,2-dioxetanedione is a forbidden transition (it violates Woodward–Hoffmann rules) and cannot proceed through a regular thermal mechanism. By adjusting...

keto–enol tautomerism by a 1,3-hydrogen migration is forbidden by the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and therefore has a high activation barrier and is not a significant...

stereoisomeric products upon cycloaddition is limited, as described by the Woodward–Hoffmann rules. Biochemical reactions are mainly controlled by complex proteins...

images depicting orbital energies as a function of bond angle Woodward–Hoffmann rules#Correlation diagrams, images correlating reactant orbitals to product...

pericyclic reactions is governed by the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and that of many elimination reactions by Zaitsev's rule. Organic reactions are important in...

generated from ring opening of aziridines. In accordance with the Woodward–Hoffmann rules, the thermal four-electron ring opening proceeds via a conrotatory...

principle. Wolff's law: Bone adapts to pressure, or a lack of it. Woodward–Hoffmann rules, in organic chemistry, predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic...

conditions. Since the substrate octatriene is a "4n + 2" molecule, the Woodward–Hoffmann rules predict that the reaction happens in a disrotatory mechanism. Since...

photochemistry advanced with the development of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules. Illustrative, these rules help rationalize the photochemically driven electrocyclic...

concerted [3,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement which according to the Woodward–Hoffmann rules show a concerted, suprafacial, pericyclic reaction pathway. Cope...

that the reaction is 'pseudopericyclic' and not subject to the Woodward–Hoffmann rules for pericyclic reactivity. Hydroboration of trisubstituted alkenes...