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Rebuttal to the Bickelhaupt–Baerends Case for Steric Repulsion Causing the Staggered Conformation of Ethane

✍ Scribed by Frank Weinhold


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
156 KB
Volume
42
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-8249

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It has recently been argued [1,2] that the barrier to rotation around the C À C bond in ethane is not to be explained by the generally accepted picture of steric hindrance between vicinal CÀH bonds in the eclipsed conformation but is caused by more favorable orbital interaction in the staggered conf