Custom eBook for Organic Chemistry
Custom eBook for Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9798214171104
Author: Straumanis
Publisher: Cengage Custom
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Interpretation: Whether resonance structure on right side in base shown below is more important structure or not should be determined.

  Custom eBook for Organic Chemistry, Chapter 5, Problem 27CTQ

Concept introduction: When one single structure is unable to describe all the properties of single molecule, a phenomenon called resonance comes into play. This arises when two or more than two Lewis structures are possible for one molecule. All such structures are called resonating structures and have same placement of atoms in them but these have different locations of bond pairs and lone pairs. The resonating structures are inter-convertible with each other. The resultant of all the resonating or contributing structures is called the resonance hybrid.

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