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Offline reema.rifkhan

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hydrogen environments in benzophenone
« on: June 06, 2015, 11:49:48 AM »

The hydrogen in C4, C6, C10 and C8 belong to same hydrogen environment.
the hydrogen in C3, C1, C11 and C13 belong to the another hydrogen environment.
and hydrogen in C12 and C2 belong to the once again, another hydrogen environment.
My question is C3, C1 , C11  C13, C12 and C2 all have two hydrogen in the neighboring carbon atoms.
So why aren't they classified as one hydrogen environment?
 Instead why are the categorized under two different environments?
Answer needed as soon as possible please. Thanks in advance!

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Re: hydrogen environments in benzophenone
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2015, 12:22:44 PM »
Try drawing minor resonance structures, and don't be afraid to put positive or negative charges on certain atoms.  Let's see what you come up with.

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Re: hydrogen environments in benzophenone
« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2015, 09:07:32 AM »
Try putting three electron pairs on oxygen (which will carry a formal charge of minus one), and see where the positive charge goes.

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