English Explanatory Dictionary

Thorpe-Ingold effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon in which increasing steric hindrance favours ring closure and intramolecular reactions.

Word forms

Thorpe-Ingold effect Thorpe-Ingold effects

Etymology

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

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