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What does woodward-hoffmann rules mean?
A set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions.
Where does woodward-hoffmann rules come from?
From Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffman, American chemists.

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