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Chapter 1, Problem 1.76AP
The following two compounds are isomers; that is, they are different compounds with the same molecular formula. We discuss this type of isomerism in Chapter 5.
- (a) Why are these different molecules that do not interconvert?
- (b) Absorption of light by a double bond in a molecule excites one electron from a π molecular orbital to a π* molecular orbital. Explain how this absorption can lead to interconversion of the two isomers.
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