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Hammond's postulate

Hammond's postulate (or alternatively the Hammond–Leffler postulate), is a hypothesis in physical organic chemistry which describes the geometric structure of the transition state in an organic chemical reaction. First proposed by George Hammond in 1955, the postulate states that:

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Structure of transition states

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Kinetics and the Bell–Evans–Polanyi principle

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Structure of transition states

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related to history · 12
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related to Kinetics and the Bell–Evans–Polanyi principle · 11
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related to E1 reactions · 9
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related to Explaining seemingly contradictory results · 7
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related to SN1 reactions · 7
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related to Applying the postulate · 4
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Hammond's postulaterelated to E1 reactionsAn E10.60section
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Hammond's postulaterelated to E1 reactionsStabilization0.60section
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