ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 20, Number 2
JKCSEZ 20(2)
April 20, 1976 

The photocyclodehydrogenation reaction of o-terphenyl type compounds has been interpreted with perturbational molecular orbital theory. Results show that the mobile bond order for the first excited state is a good reactivity index and this approach is also consistent with the orbital symmetry conservation rule of Woodward and Hoffmann.