Meanings
nounThorpe-Ingold effect (plural Thorpe-Ingold effects)
plural Thorpe-Ingold effects
- chemistryThe phenomenon in which increasing steric hindrance favours ring closure and intramolecular reactions.
Origin
Named after Jocelyn Field Thorpe and Christopher Kelk Ingold who reported the effect along with Richard Moore Beesley in 1915.
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