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WHAT IS WOODWARD-FEISERS RULE AND HOW WE CALCULATE MAX.WAVELENGTH???????

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15 Years agoGrade Upto college level
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Profile image of Vijay Luxmi Askiitiansexpert
15 Years ago

Dear Mohit,

Woodward's rules, named after Robert Burns Woodward and also known as Woodward-Fieser rules (for Louis Fieser) are several sets of empirically derived rules which attempt to predict the wavelength of the absorption maximum ( λmax ) in an ultraviolet-visible spectrum of a given compound