[transition] energy state. Because the base is highly branched or the Yeah, the base is highly branched. So in order to reach the beta hydrogen, it would be more difficult. The student did 475 not elaborate on electronic factors but did note that the base would lead the products to disobey Zaitsev's rule. Detailed transition states were not constructed. As resourses, transition states were only verbally described and not elaborately represented. The correct RCDs were constructed using steric resources, but no one accounted for the role of electronic resources in determining the overall transition state energies. In fact, while used extensively 480 as a resource to predict thermodynamic stability, no one used the extent of substitution as a resource for gauging transition state stability for either the Zaitsev or Hofmann elimination problems.