Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms (Second Edition)
Organic Chemistry: Principles and Mechanisms (Second Edition)
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780393663556
Author: Joel Karty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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It is to be shown whether cyclobutadiene has a resonance structure, on the basis of the experimental evidence that the carbon-carbon bonds are of different lengths.

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Resonance structures are alternate Lewis structures obtained by delocalization of lone pairs and/or pi bonding electrons. The actual structure is the weighted average of the resonance structures and leads to some changes in the bond lengths.

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