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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2024🎓 HS🔄 Round 9#️⃣ Question 7 TOSS UP✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Kulik group at MIT are using generative artificial intelligence to predict the transition states of chemical reactions. One of these reactions is the endothermic rearrangement of a 5-membered aromatic ring into a 3-membered ring, which is predicted by their AI to have a transition state that also has a 3-membered ring. This prediction supports what hypothesis, stating that transition states of chemical reactions resemble the higher energy side of the reaction coordinate?

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