From: Egon W. <ego...@gm...> - 2008-06-06 18:35:58
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On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Rajarshi Guha <rg...@in...> wrote: >>> Ah, that's the reason... the N of indole is not SP2, but PLANAR3... >> >> the first contributes one electron via its pz orbital (as left over >> after three sp2 hybridizations), while the second contributes two >> electrons (a lone pair). > > But the debugger is showing it to be N.sp2 And it should be a PLANAR3 N... Egon -- ---- http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ |