Question

What do you mean by resonance in carbon?

Answer 1

In chemistry, resonance or mesomerism is a way of describing delocalized electrons within certain molecules or polyatomic ions where the bonding cannot be expressed by one single Lewis structure. ... An isomer is a molecule with the same chemical formula but with different arrangements of atoms in space.

Resonance is distinguished from isomerization. An isomer is a molecule with the same chemical formula but with different arrangements of atoms in space. Resonance contributors of a molecule, on the contrary, can only differ by the arrangements of electrons. Therefore, the resonance hybrid cannot be represented by a combination of isomers.