January 10, 2012
No discussion of resonance structures would be complete without mention of how to royally screw them up. This isn’t something to feel bad about, by the way: there isn’t a chemist alive who hasn’t made one of these mistakes at some point. Think of it as a rite of passage. The trick is to make the mistakes [...]
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December 15, 2011
You’d think after five or six posts on resonance, that would be enough. But NO, friends, it just keeps going. I promise that today’s post is actually useful, although to be honest it’s probably most applicable if you’re in (or going into) org 2, since the chemistry of the functional groups discussed here don’t really [...]
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curved arrows,
electron density,
electron pushing,
enamines,
enols,
pi donation,
resonance
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