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EXCEPTION is taken to the statement1, “These new results appear to confirm the suggestion made in the Annual Reports for 1939 that the various manifestations of the 'ortho-effect' cannot be interpreted on the basis of a single conception”. The new results are in complete accord with the ideas expressed in my earlier communication2. This letter pointed out that polarizations can be promoted as well as inhibited by steric congestion, and the data of R. D. Kleine, F. H. Westheimer and G. W. Wheland3 offer an excellent example of both.
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BADDELEY, G. Steric Promotions and Inhibitions of Polarizations. Nature 150, 178–179 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150178a0
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