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Normally, benzene gives electrophilic substitution reaction rather than electrophilic addition reaction although it has double bonds. Explain why?
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Benzene has resonance stabilization due to delocalisation of π -electrons and during electrophilic addition reactions, it loses its aromaticity. In electrophilic substitution reaction aromaticity is retained
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