Isogyric reaction

Term · Chemistry · MLC-T-CHM-013221

Any reaction whose reactants and products contain equal numbers of electron pairs, so the total number of unpaired electrons does not change, as in CH4 plus H giving CH3 plus H2. In computational chemistry such reactions let correlation errors largely cancel between the two sides, which makes calculated reaction energies more reliable.

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-CHM-013221
Field	Chemistry
Subject	Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
References	PAC, 1999, 71, 1919. 'Glossary of terms used in theoretical organic chemistry' on page 1947 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199971101919)

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