Bluffton University

CEM 311
Advanced Organic Chemistry

Transition state of the Diels-Alder Reaction

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These examples include both MO diagrams and online molecular models.

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The overall Diels-Alder reaction between ethylene and butadiene:
The starting materials:
The transition state, and its molecular orbitals:
The product:
 

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