True or false: resonance

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Resonance structures share the same skeletal arrangement.

2. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   The molecule is described by all of them taken together.

3. Statement is true

   No

   Statement

   The molecule flips between the structures in turn.

4. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   The contributing forms are called canonical forms.

5. Statement is true

   Yes

   Statement

   Resonance is needed when one Lewis structure is not enough.

Explanation