Principles of Modern Chemistry
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Chapter 6, Problem 73AP
According to recent spectroscopic results, nitramide
is a nonplanar molecule. It was previously thought to be planar.
(a) Predict the bond order of the
(b) If the molecule really were planar after all, what would be the bond order of the
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