intramolecular
Adjective
Meaning
Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the molecules of bodies.
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Examples
Because water may form hydrogen bonds with solute proton donors and acceptors, it may competitively inhibit the formation of solute intermolecular or intramolecular hydrogen bonds.
Ansa-metallocenes are derivatives of metallocenes with an intramolecular bridge between the two cyclopentadienyl rings.
A synthetic polymer may be loosely described as crystalline if it contains regions of three-dimensional ordering on atomic (rather than macromolecular) length scales, usually arising from intramolecular folding and/or stacking of adjacent chains.
As there is no energetic reason to be locked into a single geometry, rapid intramolecular and intermolecular ligand exchange will take place.
Hydrogen bonds can occur between molecules (intermolecular) or within different parts of a single molecule (intramolecular).
In this scenario, intermolecular forces between the solvent and monomer subunits dominate over intramolecular interactions.