Wunacademy Test Preparation > Pre-Medical Exams > Organic Chemistry > General Organic Chemistry Inductive effect, its types and tricks to learn them LESSON 10F1 Download the Unacademy Learning App to watch this and over 200k more lessons in UPSC, SSC CGL, GATE, CAT and many more categories. aneInductive Effect (- and + | effect) Definition: It is defined as the displacement of e-’s slightly towards more electronegative atom and it operates through sigma bond. Properties of Inductive effect: 1) Itisadistance dependent effect and decreases with increase in the distance. 2) Electrons do not leave their orbitals and this effect becomes negligible after 3° carbon atom. 3) It is a permanent effect that takes place in covalent compounds. 4) |- effect of Hydrogen is taken as Zero ‘on standard scale.© unacademy (-) | Effect > Any atom or group which has more electronegativity than the attached carbon will act as an e- withdrawing group that is (EWG).© unacademy (+) | Effect » Any atom or group which has less electronegativity than the attached carbon will act as an e- donating group that is (EDG).