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Topic: HOMO in MO diagram for carbonylic group in acetone (or entire acetone)?  (Read 5192 times)

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Offline Vrig

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Does anybody know which pair of electrons are HOMO? Is it the non-bonding lone-pair or the π-orbital?
Keep in mind that the carbon and oxygen are both sp2 hybridized and that the π-bond is due to pz (if px and py are part of sp2) orbital overlap and hybridization lowers the orbital energy and oxygen is more electronegative.

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Re: HOMO in MO diagram for carbonylic group in acetone (or entire acetone)?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 09:45:57 AM »
Here is an example I found by googleing: carbonyl homo.
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