Introduction to “The Woodward‐Hoffmann Rules. From May 5, 1964, to November 30, 1964”**

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AbstractAn introduction is provided to Publication 11 in the series of articles by the author on the history of the Woodward‐Hoffmann (W−H) rules. Now permanently open access (CC‐BY) athttp://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.joc.5b01792, Paper 11 was published in 2015 inThe Journal of Organic Chemistryto celebrate the 50th anniversary of the W−H rules. This paper summarizes the content of Publications 1–10 in the series and provides an idea of the major components of Publication 11.