Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "sterically hindered" in English?

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In natural English speech, "sterically hindered" appears in contexts such as: "For one, this neopentyl primary substrate won’t do an SN2 mechanism very smoothly. Our leaving group is one carbon away from a sterically hindered tertiary carbon, so backside attack is really tough and the reaction is too slow to be practical. We also have substrates like perc, chloroethene, or chlorobenzene, where the leaving group is directly attached to a double bond.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

Question 2

Where can I hear "sterically hindered" used in a real sentence?

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Our pronunciation database found 1 conversational video occurrences of "sterically hindered" with real-time synchronized transcripts and sentence context.

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