Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thorpe-ingold effect

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables: thor-pe-in-gold -ef-fect
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Thorpe-Ingold effects (plural)

Questions

What does thorpe-ingold effect mean?: The phenomenon in which increasing steric hindrance favours ring closure and intramolecular reactions.
Where does thorpe-ingold effect come from?: Named after Jocelyn Field Thorpe and Christopher Kelk Ingold who reported the effect along with Richard Moore Beesley in 1915.

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