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Offline Markovnikov

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Re: Ozone
« Reply #15 on: December 21, 2009, 01:22:14 PM »
Instead of calculations which you do with regular MO theory, PMO uses qualitative reasoning between the interacting orbitals.

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Re: Ozone
« Reply #16 on: December 21, 2009, 02:40:35 PM »
So qualitative MO is simply called PMO?
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Re: Ozone
« Reply #17 on: December 21, 2009, 03:15:18 PM »
Well, I'm sure there's something more to it than a qualitative part...

But from my course, it's called PMO...

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Re: Ozone
« Reply #18 on: December 22, 2009, 07:58:54 AM »
Just to murky the waters still further, why do both cyclopropane and propene exist? One has the triangle structure (which I too read as being an equilateral triangle), and the other the single/double bond complex?
Probably because of the same reason you can have both diamond and graphite: in the right conditions, a chemical can assume more than one form, because it has more than one local minimum of gibbs energy.

Please note the difference between an allotrope and an isomer.
Yes, but the principle is the same.

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