Learning to draw resonance structures is typically one of the first things you’ll do in a beginning organic chemistry class, and unfortunately for some, it is one of the most important concepts you’ll need to master. Now I’m ashamed to admit it, but I originally blew off actually understanding resonance structures, and instead just BSed them a bit. It worked at the time, but later as we got into more and more complex reaction mechanisms I realized how much easier they would be to predict if I actually understood resonance. So I finally broke down and bought Pushing Electrons
In fact, this book was so valuable to me I didn’t even see it back! Here’s a beautiful picture of it sitting on my MicroKorg as proof. Actually, this kind of just inspired me. I think I might create some organic chemistry inspired music with it. Who knows!
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