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Q.An aromatic ring carries a single bromine atom. Write the IUPAC name of bromobenzene and state whether the C--Br bond carbon is sp2sp^2 or sp3sp^3 hybridised.

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Since the ring is otherwise unsubstituted, no locant is needed -- the compound is simply bromobenzene. Every carbon of the benzene ring, including the one bonded to bromine, is part of the ring's continuous, planar, conjugated π\pi system, which requires sp2sp^2 hybridisation at every ring carbon. This is a structural difference from a haloalkane, where the halogen-bearing carbon is sp3sp^3.

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Bromobenzene; the halogen-bearing carbon is sp2sp^2 hybridised, as it is a benzene ring carbon.

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