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loom91
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Hi,
I'm confused by resonance structures of molecules, what are they really? My teacher said resonance structures are in fact a decomposition of the actual molecular wave-function as a sum of simpler ones. Is this true? Or are they in fact simply pictures we draw when we can not classify the molecule into our simplistic lewis structures as claimed by my textbook? Thanks!
Molu
I'm confused by resonance structures of molecules, what are they really? My teacher said resonance structures are in fact a decomposition of the actual molecular wave-function as a sum of simpler ones. Is this true? Or are they in fact simply pictures we draw when we can not classify the molecule into our simplistic lewis structures as claimed by my textbook? Thanks!
Molu