steric
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of steric
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In a paper published this week in Science, researchers show they are able to bypass the need for steric control and directing groups to induce cobalt-catalyzed borylation that is meta-selective.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
The allosteric effector alters the steric structure of the enzyme, usually affecting the configuration of the active site.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Evidence suggests that accumulation of ice on the Antarctic continent has been offsetting the steric effect for at least several centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2018
However, owing to steric constraints, this binding mode was expected to be precluded for 3,5-dinitro analogue 6.6, necessitating involvement of the arene faces in anion recognition.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Chemistry has its covalent bonds and steric effects, geology has its weathering and tectonic shifts, neurology has its memory potentiation and plasticity and sociology has its conflict theory.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2012
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