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Aromaticity
Concepts tested here
- Huckel's rule
All Questions
2013 NEET 1 question
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The radical
is aromatic because it has:
The benzyl free radical is aromatic as per Huckel's rule: it has 6 $\pi$ electrons in the p-orbitals of the six carbon atoms that form the benzene ring.
So the ring has 6 p-orbitals and 6 $\pi$ electrons.