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No, bond angles of virtuallyvirtually any $\ce{R-O-R}$ bond will differ from $180^\circ$, so there are no commoncommon linear oxygen configurations. Steric hindrance can cause a severe deviation from the ideal tetrahedral bond angle of $109.5^\circ$, but it will usually still be very far from $180^\circ$. For example, the paper below by Liedle et al. reports a bond angle for di-tert-butyl ether of $130.8^\circ$.

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J. Mol. Struct. 1989, 198, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2860(89)80025-0

No, bond angles of virtually any $\ce{R-O-R}$ bond will differ from $180^\circ$, so there are no common linear oxygen configurations. Steric hindrance can cause a severe deviation from the ideal tetrahedral bond angle of $109.5^\circ$, but it will usually still be very far from $180^\circ$. For example, the paper below by Liedle et al. reports a bond angle for di-tert-butyl ether of $130.8^\circ$.

Reference:

J. Mol. Struct. 1989, 198, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2860(89)80025-0

No, bond angles of virtually any $\ce{R-O-R}$ bond will differ from $180^\circ$, so there are no common linear oxygen configurations. Steric hindrance can cause a severe deviation from the ideal tetrahedral bond angle of $109.5^\circ$, but it will usually still be very far from $180^\circ$. For example, the paper below by Liedle et al. reports a bond angle for di-tert-butyl ether of $130.8^\circ$.

Reference:

J. Mol. Struct. 1989, 198, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2860(89)80025-0

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No, bond angles of virtually any $\ce{R-O-R}$ bond will differ from $180^\circ$, so there are no common linear oxygen configurations. Steric hindrance can cause a severe deviation from the ideal tetrahedral bond angle of $109.5^\circ$, but it will usually still be very far from $180^\circ$. For example, the paper below by Liedle et al. reports a bond angle for di-tert-butyl ether of $130.8^\circ$.

Reference:

J. Mol. Struct. 1989, 198, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2860(89)80025-0