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The compound shown is treated with one equivalent of a strong base, which removes its most acidic hydrogen. Counting only structures with complete octets on all atoms (the carbanion form and the enolate forms), how many resonance structures, including the one with charge on carbon, does the anion have? Give your answer as an integer.

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Answer: 3

The compound shown is pentane-2,4-dione. The CH2 between the two carbonyls is the most acidic. The anion has the carbanion structure plus one enolate structure with the charge on each oxygen. That is 1 + 2 = 3 structures.
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