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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November 30, 2011
So last time I talked about resonance forms as being two (or more) different ways to draw the same molecule, which differ only in their distribution of electrons. Let’s look a little more closely at these resonance forms and ask, “what’s different?”, and be as specific as possible. In both cases the resonance form on the [...]
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