Thorpe-Ingold effect

English

Etymology

Named after Jocelyn Field Thorpe and Christopher Kelk Ingold who reported the effect along with Richard Moore Beesley in 1915.

Noun

Thorpe-Ingold effect (plural Thorpe-Ingold effects)

  1. (chemistry) The phenomenon in which increasing steric hindrance favours ring closure and intramolecular reactions.

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