stereoelectric

English

Etymology

stereo- +‎ electric

Adjective

stereoelectric (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the generation of electricity by means of solid bodies alone, without the use of liquid.
2. Of or pertaining to the three-dimensional arrangement or orientation of electrically charged groups.
   • 2012, Rudolph L. Juliano, Targeted Drug Delivery, page 334:

     The phosphate backbone-modified oligonucleotides described in this section are diastereoisomeric mixtures and form less stable hybrids than the normal phosphodiester oligonucleotiedes. However, the contribution of the P atom chirality to the overall destabilization of the hybrids may be less than expected and a distortion of the backbone due to stereoelectric factors has to be considered as well ( FROEHLER and MATTEUCCI 1988 ; IMBACH , personal communication ) .