Should the Woodward-Hoffmann Rules be Applied to Mechanochemical Reactions?

• Published in: Chemphyschem Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 1593 - 1597
• Main Authors: Wollenhaupt, Miriam, Krupička, Martin, Marx, Dominik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 08.06.2015; WILEY‐VCH Verlag; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: electrocyclic reactions; electronic structure analysis; mechanochemistry; reaction mechanisms; Woodward-Hoffmann rules; Woodward-Hoffmann rules; reaction mechanisms; electronic structure analysis; mechanochemistry; electrocyclic reactions

Since decades, pericyclic reactions have been well‐understood by means of the Woodward–Hoffmann rules and their classification as thermally or photochemically “allowed” or “forbidden”. Recently, stunning results on such reactions subject to mechanochemical activation by external forces instead of he...