Definitions
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- adjective organic chemistry Describing a
molecular rearrangement in which acovalent single bond is formed between the ends of a fullyconjugated system resulting in acyclic compound with one fewerdouble bonds
Etymologies
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electro- + cyclic
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Examples
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I began to look at all kinds of organic transformations, and so I was prepared when in the Spring of 1964 R.B. Woodward asked me some questions about what subsequently came to be called electrocyclic reactions.
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