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isomerization definition

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A chemical reaction, the principal product of which is isomeric with the principal reactant. An intramolecular isomerization that involves the breaking or making of bonds is a special case of a molecular rearrangement.

Isomerization does not necessarily imply molecular rearrangement (e.g. in the case of the interconversion of conformational isomers).


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