benzene is electron withdrawing or donating in nature ?
Aayush Garg , 8 Years ago
Grade 12
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KASOJU SAIPRAKASH
Last Activity: 8 Years ago
There are notable exceptions, like benzylic carbocations, but for the most part they function as electron withdrawing groups. Not quite. A phenyl group is almost always slightly electron donating by induction. Aniline makes the benzene ring a better nucleophile, because its lone pair is in conjugation with the ring.
sunidhi
Last Activity: 7 Years ago
Benzene usually undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution in which the hydrogen atom is replaced.in this reaction benzene act as a nucleophile as it contains greater electron density and thus act as a electron donating group.
Sai
Last Activity: 6 Years ago
Benzene is eletrone withdrawing group,bans
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