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Rules For Aromaticity

…is no exception, and the brevity of this communication belies the extreme difficulty of this experimental work, both in synthesis and characterization. The compound intramolecularly cyclizes via a diradical intermediate…

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Hybrid Orbitals and Hybridization

…containers – sort of like atomic Tupperware for holding electrons that happen to come in a variety of cutesy shapes. Electrons, then, can be imagined to behave like the “fruits”…

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Reducing Sugars

test (blue) to the Benedict solution. Another example of a non-reducing sugar are the so-called “glucosides” of common sugars, such as glucose methyl glucoside, below. This is obtained by heating…

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