(a)
Interpretation: The mode of ring closure for each of the given electro cyclic reactions has to be identified.
Concept introduction:
In an electrocyclic reaction “one new sigma- bond is formed or brocken.”
Woodward –Hoffmann rules are the set of rules used to vindicate or predict certain aspects of the stereo chemical outcome and activation energy of pericyclic reactions.
Woodward – Hoffmann rules for Electrocyclic reactions are listed below
Woodward – Hoffmann rules for the configuration of electrocyclic reactions are,
In conrotatory mode both the atomic orbitals of the end groups turn in the same direction.
But in the disrotatory the turning direction is different.
(b)
Interpretation: The configuration of the indicated hydrogens in the reactions has to be predicted.
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