English
Noun
mesoionic compound
#chemistry any of a class of compounds having five-membered ring heterocycles (or their benzo derivatives) which possess a sextet of �-electrons in association with the atoms comprising the ring, but which cannot be represented by any one covalent or polar structure; typically the structure cantains a delocalised charge which cannot be associated with any one ring atom
See also
aromatic compound

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