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Ring strain
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Baeyer's angle-strain theory of cycloalkanes, and why puckered rings
escape it.


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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Adolf von Baeyer (1885) combined van&#x27;t Hoff&#x27;s tetrahedral carbon with the assumption that rings are flat. A planar ring of n carbons has interior angles 180^\circ(n-2)/n, so each bond must bend away from the tetrahedral 109.47 degrees by">

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  :doc:`/api/gallery/structure/ring_strain/plot_01_baeyer_angle_strain`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Baeyer's strain theory: angle strain in planar cycloalkane rings</div>
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