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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 16
(2011) pp 282-285
The Union of Incipent π-Bond Orders and FMO Arguments: a CompleteApproach to Transition-state Assessments for Concerted Reactions
Richard Francis Langler
Department of Chemistry, Mount Allison University,
Sackville, New Brunswick, E4L 1G8,Canada, rlangler@mta.ca
Received July
5, 2011. Accepted September 19, 2011.
Published: 14 October 2011
Abstract. The strengths and weaknesses of the Hückel/Möbius and FMO approaches to transition-state assessments are described. A proposed union of the two approaches remedies the weaknesses and provides a superior method for examining concerted reactions. Selected exemplary reactions are included.
Key Words: In the Classroom; physical organic chemistry; Hückel Theory, concerted reactions; orbital symmetry
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: rlangler@mta.ca)
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