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Grade 11Mechanics

sir please explain the difference between formal charge and resonance?

Profile image of Abhishek Choudhary
14 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Chetan Mandayam Nayakar
14 Years ago

in formal charge, there is only one lewis dot structure for a molecule whereas, in resonance, electrons are quantum mechanically delocalized,or,in other words, "spread out" over multiple covalent bonds.