what role steric effect plays in insolubility of tertiary amines.
5 Answers
virang1 Jhaveri
·2009-03-30 08:49:11
Steric effects arise from the fact that each atom within a molecule occupies a certain amount of space. If atoms are brought too close together, there is an associated cost in energy due to overlapping electron clouds (Pauli or Born repulsion), and this may affect the molecule's preferred shape (conformation) and reactivity.
This is called Steric effect
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·2009-03-30 08:51:37
Manish Shankar
·2009-03-31 06:56:02
Tertiary amine being crowded by alkyl groups will have difficulty in forming hydrogen bonding with water
so they less soluble