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Old May 28th, 2006, 17:29
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This is a typo. None of those are resonance forms of para aminobenzoic acid. The structure of E should have single bonds to both the O- substituents. 5 co-ordinate carbon is (almost) always an absolute no-no because, if it is covalent, this requires 10 valence electrons around carbon.

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