Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry
Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780618974122
Author: Andrei Straumanis
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Interpretation: Whether resonance structure on right side in base shown below is more important structure or not should be determined.

  Organic Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry, 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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