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Hydrocarbons: Aromatic rule MCQ

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Aromatic ruleHardQuestion 33022

Question

Benzene is aromatic because it has:

  1. A
    6 pi electrons in a planar cyclic conjugated system
    Correct
  2. B
    8 pi electrons
  3. C
    only sigma electrons
  4. D
    sp3^3 carbons only

Correct answer

6 pi electrons in a planar cyclic conjugated system

Explanation

It follows Hückel's 4n+2 rule with n = 1.

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