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Might be a stupid question but got to ask. The bonds of benzene have a bond dissociation energy in between that of a single C-C bond and an alkene yet its stability is much higher that expected due to aromaticity/e- delocalization. Is stability not necessarily reflected in bond dissociation energy. This fact had slipped my mind till I found out that the IR absorption is lower for a aromatic C-C bond then it is for a Alkene C-C bond.
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