steric
Americanadjective
adjective
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Owing to the small size of fluorine atoms, the electron-accepting ability of the NHC ligand can be enhanced without substantially changing its steric properties.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
The allosteric effector alters the steric structure of the enzyme, usually affecting the configuration of the active site.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
It is generally thought that sea-level rise accelerates mainly by thermal expansion of sea water, the so-called steric component.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2018
The carbon-ring-opening reaction pathway, while increasing the steric availability of the H atom, might be a slow step.
From Nature ● May 24, 2016
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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