HistoricalPericyclicChemical Sciences

The thermal reactions … took precisely the opposite stereochemical course to that which we had predicted. A non-covalent-interaction view of the model.

https://doi.org/10.59350/nvpn6-e7w22
Published in Henry Rzepa's Blog

Another foray into one of the more famous anecdotal chemistry “models”, the analysis of which led directly to the formulation of the WoodWard-Hoffmann (stereochemical) rules for pericyclic reactions.