Saturday, 16 January 2016

organic chemistry - Application of the Woodward-Hoffman rules to a [14+2] cycloaddition


I am just doing some pericyclic practice problems and I am just trying to understand the Woodward Hoffman rules.



The attached picture is a problem I attempted that was checked against the answers but I am confused how the symmetry is allowed.


When I add the (4n + 2) and 4n together I get 4. Doesn't n have to be an integer and the sum an odd number for the symmetry to be allowed?


EDIT: I copied the answer below with incorrect stereochemistry. Please refer to the second image for the correct stereochemistry 14 + 2 addition EDIT: Correct stereochemistry below


14 + 2 addition




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