Conjugation and Delocalisation


Introduction

This website takes a moment to look at the importance of conjugation and delocalisation,not very familiar words to the everyday person but they are actually an incredibly important factor in the colour of objects.Conjugation focuses on a sequence of alternating double bonds with single bonds.Delocalisation focuses on the molecular orbitals covering the whole system.The electrons are delocalised over the whole of a conjugated system.

The contents of this site will be:

  1. Conjugate systems
  2. Delocalisation
  3. Affecting colours
  4. Conjugate addition

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Author: Richard Johnson (document modification date: 15th may 2003)©