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Topic: Are Insignificant Resonance Structures "Major resonance contributors"?  (Read 2500 times)

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Offline stopkillingme21

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Title says it all. I'm working on a worksheet that has the following prompt: "Draw, using curved arrow notation, all of the major resonance contributors of the following species."

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Re: Are Insignificant Resonance Structures "Major resonance contributors"?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2017, 04:22:29 PM »
Define major and insignificant.

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Re: Are Insignificant Resonance Structures "Major resonance contributors"?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2017, 04:32:05 PM »
I don't see a bright line between minor forms that are significant versus minor forms that are insignificant.  If you are trying to complete an assignment, perhaps you could indicate that a particular resonance form is minor.

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