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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 or 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 system, which requires hybridisation at every ring carbon. This is a structural difference from a haloalkane, where the halogen-bearing carbon is .
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Bromobenzene; the halogen-bearing carbon is hybridised, as it is a benzene ring carbon.
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