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What is resonance in actuality? (How does electron sharing, bond formation, and overlapping of orbitals take place in resonance hybrids?) [duplicate]
In this post I got an answer to the question "what is resonance".
What I understand overall is that "resonance is not something really happening physically, it is just an idea to make ...
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But what are anti-bonding pi-orbital? In search for an intuitive explanation [closed]
Imagine that you want to explain to an undergraduate why they have to to shade the pi-orbitals in a symmetrical way, i.e. dark on top (+), white on bottom (-) for two neighbouring pi-orbitals because ...
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Why m-hydroxybenzoic acid has higher acidity then p-hydroxybenzoic acid?
Why m-hydroxybenzoic acid has higher acidity than p-hydroxybenzoic acid?
I have a reasoning that since hydroxy group is an activating group, then it increases the electron density on its para ...
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The proper explanation for the general formula of the DU? [duplicate]
I found a formula for the degree of unsaturation (DU) in Clayden’s Organic Chemistry. It explains, simply, the unsaturation with the difference in H atoms. Then I stumbled upon the general formula:
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