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Grade 11Organic Chemistry

How many resonating structures does benzene have? some say only 2; others say 4 but 2 are more contributing.....I’m confused.

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11 Years agoGrade 11
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11 Years ago
There are two main resonating structure for benzene and the real is hybrid of these two forms.
Please see the image below given:

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