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Year 13 Chemistry

Aromatic compounds

The structure and stability of benzene, electrophilic substitution (nitration, halogenation, Friedel-Crafts), reactions of phenol and the comparison with benzene.

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1. The enthalpy change of hydrogenation of cyclohexene is −120 kJ mol−1 and that of benzene is −208 kJ mol−1. By how many kJ mol−1 is benzene more stable than the Kekulé structure predicts?

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