Allylic radical, molecular orbital spin density surface

In molecular orbital terms, the stability of the allyl radical is due to the fact that the unpaired electron is delocalized, or spread out, over an extended 7T orbital network rather than localized at only one site, as shown by the computer-generated MO in Fig 10.3. This delocalization is particularly apparent in the so-called spin density surface in Figure 10.4, which shows the calculated location, of the unpaired electron. The two terminal carbons share the unpaired electron equally. 

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ ]

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