NCERT Exercise 9.19 - Hydrocarbons

Question: Why does benzene undergo electrophilic substitution more readily than nucleophilic substitution?

Answer: Its electron-rich pi cloud attracts electrophiles; nucleophilic attack would be disfavoured and disrupt aromatic stabilisation without strong activation.

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