Strain — can refer to: * Strain (biology), a variant of a plant, virus or bacterium; or an inbred animal used for experimental purposes * Strain (chemistry), a chemical stress of a molecule * Strain (continuum mechanics), the deformation of materials… … Wikipedia
strain theory — ▪ chemistry in chemistry, a proposal made in 1885 by the German chemist Adolf von Baeyer (Baeyer, Adolf von) that the stability of carbocyclic compounds (i.e., those of which the molecular structure includes one or more rings of carbon… … Universalium
Strain theory — can refer to;In chemistry: *Baeyer strain theory, a principle in chemistry.In social sciences: *In criminology and the sociology of deviance, the strain theories are related to the concept of Anomie. Strain appears when society emphasizes too… … Wikipedia
Strain energy — In a molecule, strain energy is released when the constituent atoms are allowed to rearrange themselves in a chemical reaction or a change of chemical conformation in a way that:* angle strain, * torsional strain, * ring strain and/or steric… … Wikipedia
strain theory — noun Etymology: strain (III) : a theory in chemistry that accounts for strain in the structure of molecules; especially : baeyer strain theory … Useful english dictionary
Copper-free click chemistry — is a bioorthogonal reaction first developed by Carolyn Bertozzi as an activated variant of an azide alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition, based on the work by Sharpless et. al. Unlike the CuAAC, Cu free click chemistry has been modified to be… … Wikipedia
Fullerene chemistry — is a field of organic chemistry devoted to the chemical properties of fullerenes. Fullerenes and Related Structures (Topics in Current Chemistry) ISBN 3 540 64939 5 1993] [ Covalent fullerene chemistry François Diederich Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 69 … Wikipedia
Van der Waals strain — In chemistry, van der Waals strain is strain resulting from van der Waals repulsion when two substituents in a molecule approach each other with a distance less than the sum of their van der Waals radii. Van der Waals strain is also called van… … Wikipedia
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Ring strain — is an organic chemistry term that describes the destabilization of a cyclic molecule such as a cycloalkane due to the non favorable high energy spatial orientations of its atoms. Non cyclic molecules do not exhibit ring strain because their… … Wikipedia