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Grade 12th passOrganic Chemistry

what are resonance effects? please explain them to me in a easy way

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9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Umakant Biswal
9 Years ago
The resonance effect is a chemical phenomenon observed in compounds characteristic of double bonds of organic compounds. Organic compounds that contain double bonds in their structure are usually made of the overlap of p-orbitals on two adjacent carbon atoms (referred to as pi bonds). 
resonance or mesomerism is a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules or polyatomic ions where the bonding cannot be expressed by one single Lewis structure.
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