Which outcome reduces catalytic efficiency, when substrate molecule steric impedance misaligns its frontier orbitals with a metal catalyst's orbitals?

💡 Explanation

Decreased electron transfer occurs because the orbital misalignment hinders the **quantum tunneling** process requiring overlap of wave functions, therefore the reaction rate slows, rather than being accelerated, because the ideal transition state is inaccessible.

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