In organic chemistry, a dipolar compound or simply dipole is an electrically neutral molecule carrying a positive and a negative charge in at least one canonical description.
Dipolar compounds exhibit a dipole moment.
Dipolar compounds can be represented by a resonance structure.
Contributing structures containing charged atoms are denoted as zwitterions.
[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Some dipolar compounds can have an uncharged canonical form.