Carrots get their orange-y color from, you guessed it, an organic chemical. This chemical, called beta carotene, gets its pigment from its conjugated electron system. We-ve talked some already about conjugation, but in this episode of Crash Course Organic Chemistry we-ll go even deeper and look at how conjugation stabilizes molecules and how p orbitals can overlap to form pi molecular orbitals of different energy levels. Plus we-ll learn what UV spectroscopy can show us about conjugated molecules.
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Yvon: Thank you for finally getting into QM and show the energy level splitting due to LCAO. Im not a chemist but I can understand chemistry further with physics. Date: 2022-04-04
