THE formula of ethylene oxide is commonly portrayed as (I), the instability of the compound being ascribed to the existence of strain tending to open the ring. This explanation can scarcely be ...
A. D. WALSH 1 has suggested that the properties of cyclopropane and ethylene oxide are better, accounted for by the formulæ I (three equivalent resonance forms) and II than by III and IV: ...
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