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What are canonical structures? Please explain with a structure

Ujwal jain , 8 Years ago
Grade 12
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In chemistryresonance or mesomerism[1] is a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules or polyatomic ions where the bonding cannot be expressed by one single Lewis structure. A molecule or ion with such delocalized electrons is represented by several contributing structures[2] (also called resonance structures or canonical structures).    
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Atharva garajka4
A canonical form is an element of a set of representatives of equivalence classes of forms such that there is a function or procedure which projects every element of each equivalence class onto that one element, the canonical form of that equivalence class.
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