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Angle strain
The presence of angle strain in a molecule indicates that in a specific chemical conformation there exists a bond angle that deviates from the bond angle required to archieve maximum bond strength.
Maximum bond strength results from effective overlap of atomic orbitals in a chemical bond.
A quantitative measure for angle strain is strain energy.
Examples of molecules with angle strain:
- cycloalkanes
- cylophanes
- platonic hydrocarbons
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