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X-Ray Crystallographic Measurements on some Compounds showing Intramolecular Overcrowding

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IT has been recognized for some time that there exist classes of aromatic structures in which the (intramolecular) distance of closest approach between non-bonded atoms, calculated on the basis of conventional bond-lengths and bond-angles, is smaller than the sum of the van der Waals' radii of these atoms. Bell and Waring1 have suggested the term ‘intramolecular overcrowding’ for this type of steric effect.

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    E. HARNIK, F. H. HERBSTEIN & G. M. J. SCHMIDT

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HARNIK, E., HERBSTEIN, F. & SCHMIDT, G. X-Ray Crystallographic Measurements on some Compounds showing Intramolecular Overcrowding. Nature 168, 158–160 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168158b0

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