Talk:Resveratrol/Comments

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The structure shown as a spinning spacefilling-CPK model (looks like it was rendered using QuteMol) is not the same as the 2D chemical structure shown above it. The 2D chemical structure has a trans arrangement of the aromatic groups, while the 3D spinning model has them as cis. This is inconsistent. I do not know for sure which one is correct, but my chemical intuition says that the trans double bond would be more stable, since there is much less steric hindrance.