does anyone understand the resonance of benzene???

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anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

so what is the real structure

rogue · Answer

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rogue · Answer

The top 2 are the possible arrangements for the double bonds. The bottom is the resonnance structure, where the instead of the bond orders being 2-1-2-1-2-1, you have 1.5-1.5-1.5-1.5-1.5-1.5; the electrons become delocalized in center region of...

rogue · Answer

Do you have any other questions on this?

rogue · Answer

My laptop battery is about to die and its well past midnight, so I'm gonna go to sleep, bye :)

anonymous · Answer

thnx but that means the real structure has one electronsin all of unhybridized p orbitals

anonymous · Answer

also what does delocalized mean ? srry i know know ur tired ....

rogue · Answer

There is sp2 hybridization in benzene.

rogue · Answer

Delocalized... There really isn't any actual double bonds and instead the electrons don't have a 'local' region they stay.
I also didn't mean it in terms of metallic bonding btw.

anonymous · Answer

so they are contantly jumping around from one p orbital to the other

rogue · Answer

Yeah, you can think of it like that. Anyways, 5% charge, really gotta go, peace out!

anonymous · Answer

bye thank you  will discuss more later

unklerhaukus · Answer

think of Ouroboros
the serpent eating its own tail