Shown above is an octahedral coordination complex and it's mirror image. The complex has a plane of symmetry (shown in the left diagram, a diagonal plane passing through bottom left and top right corner, perpendicular to the square plane) ... but still it's mirror image is non-superimposable ...
Homework Statement The textbook "Organic Chemistry by O P Tandon" says that the tropylium cation (cycloheptatri-2,4,6-enyl cation) is more stable than the triphenylmethyl cation ( Ph3C+) (phase/solvent not mentioned). Is this correct assuming it's in a non-polar medium ? On a related note, are...
Homework Statement
According to my textbook (Organic Chemistry by Solomon & Fryhle) "When an o-substituted aniline is protonated (at the N), increase of H-N-H bond angle leads to steric hindrance with the group at the o-position. This makes this protonated conjugate acid unstable and makes the...
in the first image, under "optical isomerism in alkylidenes" , the middle compound in the second row is said as "optically inactive"
If the structure is as shown in https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/58630/why-is-1-ethylidene-4-methylcyclohexane-chiral
then it should be optically...
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ZnS has a ccp structure with S2- ions forming FCC lattice with Zn2+ ions at half the tetrahedral voids
Attached is a table showing no. of nearest neighbours and their distance for an S2- ion
'a' is edge length of the unit cell
I want to know how the distance to the 3rd & 5th...