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noun 
  1. (chemistry) a set of three rules that invoke the conservation of orbital symmetry to predict the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions
Etymology: From w:Robert Burns Woodward, Robert Burns Woodward and w:Roald Hoffman, Roald Hoffman, American chemists


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