What is resonance?

1 Answer
Sunayan S · Truong-Son N.
Nov 18, 2017

See the answer below...

Explanation:

What is RESONANCE?
#=># Resonance is the conception that the electrons of an ion or compound delocalize around the compound by spreading electron density to even out bond orders.

As by #color(red)("RESONANCE"#, the compounds gets stability, meaning that some of the bonds in the compound become stronger and some others weaker; and through this the positive and negative dipoles even out so that a symmetrical molecule becomes nonpolar.

Let's have an example...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQaSswbG_A855HgrdrYGALhoIBs1pDXTOUFtYQe8Kl252HYr2BoWK-Z4A

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDmq8i5Ct_3kLAMeBiVY097C5-cutvS3AsKCu48ZohHk7x9LbeDbPeldA
supplied
Happy to help...
Thank you...

Related questions
See all questions in Resonance
Impact of this question
3174 views around the world
You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License