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JEE Mains · Chemistry · STD 11 - 8.1. Organic chemistry Nomenclature of organic compounds

The total number of aromatic compounds/species from the following is

  1. A \(6\)
  2. B \(4\)
  3. C \(3\)
  4. D \(5\)
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(B) \(4\)

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A species is aromatic if it is cyclic, planar, fully conjugated (continuous cyclic overlap of \(p\)-orbitals) and contains \((4n + 2)\,\pi\) electrons (Huckel's rule). Let us analyse each species. \(1,4\)-Benzoquinone: The six-membered ring has only \(4\pi\) electrons (from the…
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