The attractive steric interaction between the groups in a sidechain to a benzene ring and a meta-substituent is usually more than offset by the repulsive interaction of the sidechain with the ortho-hydrogen atom which is buttressed by the meta-substituent.
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Anderson et al. (1994) studied this question.
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