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Ernest Z.
Dec 17, 2017

This is the only resonance contributor.

Explanation:

This is a tertiary carbocation surrounded on each side by saturated carbon atoms.

There are no adjacent #"p"# orbitals that can be involved in resonance.

Two very minor resonance contributors would be

  • Hyperconjugation with the adjacent #"C-H"# bonds
  • 1,3-π overlap to form a bicyclic carbocation
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