rearrangement stage

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The @[email protected] or @[email protected] (of a @[email protected] ) in which there is both making and breaking of bonds between atoms common to a reactant and a reaction product or a reaction @[email protected] If the @[email protected] stage consists of a single @[email protected], this is a '@[email protected] step'.
Source:
PAC, 1994, 66, 1077. (Glossary of terms used in physical organic chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1994)) on page 1160 [Terms] [Paper]