Which of the Following Statements About Benzene Is FALSE

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about benzene is FALSE?

• A) the molecule is planar and each carbon is at a corner of regular hexagon
• B) there are two resonance structures of equivalent energy
• C) the bond angles are all 120º and the bond lengths are all 1.39Å
• D) the typical mechanism by which reactions occur is by addition
• E) each carbon in the benzene ring is sp² hybridized

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