benzene is electron withdrawing or donating in nature ?
Aayush Garg , 9 Years ago
Grade 12
3 Answers
KASOJU SAIPRAKASH
There are notable exceptions, like benzylic carbocations, but for the most part they function as electron withdrawing groups. Not quite. A phenyl group is almost always slightly electron donating by induction. Aniline makes the benzene ring a better nucleophile, because its lone pair is in conjugation with the ring.
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sunidhi
Benzene usually undergo nucleophilic aromatic substitution in which the hydrogen atom is replaced.in this reaction benzene act as a nucleophile as it contains greater electron density and thus act as a electron donating group.
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Sai
Benzene is eletrone withdrawing group,bans
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