Effects of three-dimensional structures

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St ructure effect I he effect of three-dimensional structure of a ship on her appearance in causing shadows, highlights and structure pattern. 

Structure pattern. A pattern of shadows and highlights brought about by the effects of three-dimensional structure, not by painting. 

Gelation and the attendent insolubility mentioned above are encountered in all of the nonlinear polymerizations listed in Table I and in many others likewise. Naturally these characteristics have been attributed to the restraining effects of three-dimensional, or space, network structures of infinite size within the polymer. This is the feature which distinguishes most nonlinear from linear polymers. 

Through the years from his laboratory studies under Thorpe until his return to London in 1944, and still afterward, the heart of Ingold s theoretical chemistry was a recognition of the complementary roles in chemical processes of three-dimensional structure and physicochemical forces. His early career is marked by an effort to sort out the directing role in reacting molecules played by electrical and polar effects, in combination with stereochemical effects studied by chemists imbued with nineteenth-century concepts of structure and valence. 

SAMs provide the needed design flexibility, both at the individual molecular and at the material levels, and offer a vehicle for investigation of specific interactions at interfaces, and of the effect of increasing molecular complexity on the structure and stability of two-dimensional assemblies. These studies may eventually produce the design capabilities needed for assemblies of three-dimensional structures (109). 

Up to now, we have considered CPs (almost) exclusively as being perfectly periodic, infinite, and isolated one-dimensional chains. This is not what real materials are made of. In this and the following sections, we move closer to real materials by considering the effects of three-dimensional coupling and of disorder (both intrachain and interchain). Not surprisingly, less theoretical work has been done on these issues. On the other hand, considerable experimental effort has been devoted to characterizing the disorder, which is discussed in Chapter 12, where the structure of CPs is considered. 

Let us first discuss the effects of three-dimensional coupling of CP chains, still supposed to be perfect and in perfect three-dimensional order, a situation for which theoretical results are available. The coupling can affect the electronic structure and excitations of the chain and a new problem appears, that of three-dimensional transfer of excitation. This is crucial to understanding the dc conductivity of CPs, both undoped and doped. 

Let s now take a closer look at the three-dimensional structure of alkanes. The study of three-dimensional structure is called stereochemistry. In Chapter 4 we examine the effect of rotation around single bonds. In Chapter 5, we will learn about other aspects of stereochemistry. 

Correlations of three-dimensional structure with the chemical, physical, and biological properties of a compound require comparisons of bonding geometry, of conformation, and/or of interactions of the compounds with their respective environments in the crystal structure. Lists of results from calculations of bonding geometry can be used, but graphical methods are frequently more effective, and easier for the reader. 

See Section 7.3.) Biomolecules function at the level of three-dimensional structure, so from a functional point of view it is more important to conserve particular three-dimensional structures than one-dimensional sequences. Although mutations occur at the level of one-dimensional sequences, the effects of mutations are felt at the level of function. Therefore, many mutations will lead to sequence changes that are tolerable because they preserve a common three-dimensional structure. 

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