It is well known that the tert-butyl cation's empty 2p orbital on the central carbon is stabilised by hyperconjugation from neighboring C-H bonds. This would mean that the central 2p "lone pair" is antibonding in character in the tert-butyl cation; the same would go for the empty boron 2p orbital...

Uranium is six electrons ahead of radon and radon is six electrons ahead of mercury, the uranium(XIII) cation would have the electronic configuration of mercury. Now let one consider the theoretically possible uranium(XII) oxide molecule. Since oxygen(-II), as a ligand, can donate at most 6 elect...

A diagram of molecular orbitals for $\ce{H2O}$ would be as follows: The above diagram has been constructed qualitatively following the steps that I have been instructed in various classes on this bonding theory. Nevertheless, I have seen that the Guassian software allows to visualize the molecul...

I am wondering why there is the following inconsistency in InChI: penicillin G vs. penicillin G potassium salt uses the /p layer to drop a proton but chloramine-T vs. tosylchloramide drops an H from the formula instead Here is penicillin G vs. penicillin G potassium salt aligning the InChIs: In...