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Degenerate Rearrangements

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In their discussion of sigmatropic rearrangements, Woodward and Hoffmann state: “For the analysis of these reactions correlation diagrams are not relevant since it is only the transition state and not the reactants or products which may possess molecular symmetry elements.” [1, p. 114] This is something of an overstatement. For example, they could hardly have meant it to apply to 1,5-hexadiene, which is no less symmetrical than any transition state that can be assumed for its Cope rearrangement.

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Halevi, E.A. (1992). Degenerate Rearrangements. In: Halevi, E.A. (eds) Orbital Symmetry and Reaction Mechanism. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83568-1_8

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