Cage effect (chemistry)

Cage Effect (chemistry)

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The cage effect in chemistry describes how properties of a molecule are affected by its surrounding.

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Chemistry - Molecule

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• In a solvent a molecule is often more accurately described existing in a cage of solvent molecules.
• In a gas at low pressure a normally highly reactive and short lived molecule can be contained.
• specific host-guest interactions occur in inclusion compounds