Citation: Zhanhui Yang, Xufan Shen. Dewar Benzene and the Resonance Structures of Benzene[J]. University Chemistry, ;2021, 36(6): 200801. doi: 10.3866/PKU.DXHX202008014 shu

Dewar Benzene and the Resonance Structures of Benzene

Zhanhui Yang ^, ,
Xufan Shen

Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China

Corresponding author: Zhanhui Yang, zhyang@mail.buct.edu.cn
Received Date: 7 August 2020

The domestic organic chemistry textbooks use different numbers of contributing structures when introducing the resonance structures of benzene. This paper suggests that some of the related textbooks remove Dewar benzene and other ionic structures from the resonance structures of benzene, and adopt the correct resonance representation which constitutes only two Kekulé structures.
- Organic chemistry,
- Benzene,
- Resonance structure,
- Kekulé structure,
- Dewar bezene
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