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Saytseff's rule

Saytseff's rule is the alternative form of Zaitsev's rule.

Meaning of Zaitsev's rule

Proper noun

Zaitsev's rule

  1. An empirical rule for predicting the favoured alkene product(s) in elimination reactions. The alkene formed in greatest amount is the one that corresponds to removal of the hydrogen from the β-carbon having the fewest hydrogen substituents.

Questions about Saytseff's rule

What is Saytseff's rule the alternative form of?
Saytseff's rule is the alternative form of Zaitsev's rule.

Words near Saytseff's rule in the dictionary

  1. sayso
  2. saysos
  3. sayst
  4. SAYT
  5. sayth
  6. Saytseff's rule
  7. sayur lodeh
  8. Sayuri
  9. Sayville
  10. Sayyad
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Saytseff's rule (page history and authors); Zaitsev's rule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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