adjective
- relating to or denoting a type of chemical reaction in which bonds are formed or broken in a cyclic transition state
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- The Diels-Alder reaction is a classic example of a pericyclic reaction.
- Pericyclic reactions proceed through concerted mechanisms without intermediates.
- Students studied the orbital symmetry rules governing pericyclic processes.
- The cycloaddition was identified as a pericyclic transformation.
- Pericyclic reactions are characterized by their stereospecific nature.
- The professor explained how pericyclic mechanisms differ from ionic reactions.