From 18db572385ce70a74c6acb7c33ef206c5bf5c2c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eggy Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:01:50 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] chem: so2 doesn't have resonance anymore --- docs/sch3uz.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/sch3uz.md b/docs/sch3uz.md index 0d68b01..5d32e6c 100644 --- a/docs/sch3uz.md +++ b/docs/sch3uz.md @@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ Even when considering formal charges, there may still be multiple best Lewis str The resonance structures of a compound show that none of the models is truly correct but instead the actual structure is somewhere **in between all of them**, and is **not** "flipping" between the various resonance structures. !!! warning - Even molecules such as $\text{SO}_2$ have resonance structures as the possible naive structures prior to involving formal charges are also considered to be resonant. + Molecules such as $\text{SO}_2$ have resonance structures as the possible naive structures prior to involving formal charges are *not* considered to be resonant. The **resonance-hybrid** structure shows that the actual strength of all three bonds is equal and somewhere between a single and double bond.