6: Quantum Mechanics in Reactions

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Contributed by Jack Simons
Professor Emeritus and Henry Eyring Scientist (Chemistry) at University of Utah

Along "reaction paths", orbitals can be connected one-to-one according to their symmetries and energies. This is the origin of the Woodward-Hoffmann rules.

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Jack Simons (Henry Eyring Scientist and Professor of Chemistry, U. Utah) Telluride Schools on Theoretical Chemistry and Jeff A. Nichols (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)