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What is Pericyclic reaction?

Definition 26.1 University Chemistry — Year 3 · Chapter 26 — Pericyclic Reactions

A pericyclic reaction is a concerted reaction whose transition state is a cyclic array of interacting orbitals, in which all the bonds are made and broken around the ring at the same time.

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