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Resonance in Cyclohexenone

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The structure you've drawn on the left does have a resonance structure, but not the one you've drawn on the right.

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Drawing resonance structures out by hand gets quicker over time. You find that you don't need to actually put in a "C" for carbon, or label the hydrogen atoms. Huckel's rule generally applies to planar, cyclic molecules with continuous conjugation, although it has also be applied to transition states where an S or P orbital on a shifting C or H moiety completes a loop of continuous conjugation (for example, the 1,5 hydrogen shift in cyclopentadiene).

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