Actual Molecule of Benzene and its Resonance Structures: An Explanation Using the Analogy of a Macro Entity and Its Sketches

Abstract

Confusions about basic concepts are common among number of students during early stages of education in any field, which later on reduced as they got more advance knowledge about their subject. This study is focused on the most important basic concept of chemistry i.e. Resonance phenomena to explain the benzene molecule structure and its canonical forms. Enormous literature available on this topic; however, still chemistry students find difficult to understand the difference between a real molecular moiety and it’s proposed sketch or model at early stages of their learning. To solve this issue macro entity and its sketches analogy used in front of students and found it more effective. A tough or difficult topic during class lecture can be simplified by using a suitable analogy with minimal resources.