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Q.Show two canonicals of benzene by drawing. Benzene is stored in a bottle. Is there existence of the two canonicals in the benzene of the bottle? Answer with reason. [2 + 1] OR Between (CH₃)₃C–Cl and CH₃–Cl, which compound undergoes heterolytic fission readily in water? Why? [1 + 2]

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Figure — The stem asks to show the two canonical (Kekule) structures of benzene by drawing; the catalog figure depicts
Figure — The stem asks to show the two canonical (Kekule) structures of benzene by drawing; the catalog figure depicts

The two Kekulé structures are only bookkeeping devices for describing the true, single delocalised structure of benzene — real benzene molecules do not oscillate between them.

Two canonical (Kekulé) structures of benzene: both are hexagons with alternating single and double bonds, differing only in which three of the six C–C bonds are drawn as double bonds:

Structure I: double bonds between C1–C2, C3–C4, C5–C6.

Structure II: double bonds between C2–C3, C4–C5, C6–C1.

(Each is drawn as a hexagon with alternating == and −- bonds, the two differing by a one-bond rotation of where the double bonds sit.)

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