>>13339918Ok im starting to understand it more clearly
>hydrogens in your model molecule are equivalent, they all have exactly the same surroundingIf one of the chlorine molecule was changed for bromine for example, the geminal protons would still be equivalent (they can be mirrored into each other), but if you would see splitting between vicinal protons since they no longer have the same surrounding
This makes sense to me, I think the biggest confusion I had was the exapmles they showed where splitting is observed. Were you saying that the different color Ha and Hb was supposed to make me assume they are in non chemically equivalent environments?
ex: If I had 2-Fluoroethanol, on C1, there would be a different chemical environment for Ha since it is has a vinyl F near Ha. On the other hand, Hb is bound to the vinyl hydroxy group.
Is this what the different colored protons wanted us to assume, that on those sigma bonds, there would be different R?
