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Why benzene is reluctant to show addition reaction?

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### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Understanding Benzene's Structure**: - Benzene (C6H6) is a cyclic hydrocarbon with a planar structure. It has alternating single and double bonds, but due to resonance, all the bonds are equivalent, and it is often represented as a hexagon with a circle inside. 2. **Aromaticity**: - Benzene is classified as an aromatic compound. Aromatic compounds are characterized by their stability due to a special type of bonding called resonance, where the π electrons are delocalized over the entire ring structure. This delocalization follows Hückel's rule (4n + 2 π electrons, where n is a non-negative integer). ...
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