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Course: Organic chemistry (Essentials) - Class 11 > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Resonance- Resonance structures
- Resonance structure patterns
- Resonance structures for benzene and the phenoxide anion
- Common mistakes when drawing resonance structures
- Identifying the correct resonating structure.
- Stability due to Resonance
- Quantity of Resonating Structures vs Quality
- Resonance and stability of aliphatic intermediates.
- +R & -R groups in Resonance
- Relative strengths of different +R groups
- Relative strengths of different -R groups
- Resonance due to Electron Donors in a Benzyl Cation
- Effect of an electron withdrawing group in a benzyl cation
- Stability of a substituted benzyl anion
- Resonance and stability of aromatic intermediates.
- Comparing the stabilities of aromatic and aliphatic intermediates using resonance.
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Effect of an electron withdrawing group in a benzyl cation
In this video, we see that an electron withdrawing group to a benzyl cation destabilises it. However adding it at ortho- and para- destabilises it more compared to meta- !!
Created by Shahzad Karim.
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