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COMEDK · Chemistry · 13. General Organic Chemistry

Identify the aromatic compounds among the given set based on Huckel's rule:

  1. A I, II, IV
  2. B II, III, IV
  3. C I, II, III
  4. D I, III, IV
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(A) I, II, IV

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According to Huckel's rule, a compound is aromatic if it is cyclic, planar, fully conjugated, and has \((4n + 2)\) \(\pi\) electrons, where \(n = 0, 1, 2, \dots\) Compound (I): Cyclopropenyl cation is cyclic, planar, and fully conjugated. It has \(2\) \(\pi\) electrons.…