michaelResearchers have directly observed steric effects—the interactions of molecules depending on their spatial orientation (not just between their electrons involved in bonding)—in a chemical reaction involving non-polar molecules for the first time. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/976416 #chemistry #ReactionMechanism
Researchers devise a new way to control ‘3D’ effects in chemical reactions
The impact of the direction of the chemical bond of colliding molecules on their chemical reactions has been observed in collisions of non-polar molecules for the first time. This observation and its theoretical underpinnings potentially offer a new way to control chemical reactions beyond the traditional chemical-reaction parameters of temperature, pressure and the addition of catalysts.
Jiayu Peng