Most Stable Isomer: Ortho, Meta, or Para Benzene?

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The stability of ortho, meta, and para isomers of dichlorobenzene is influenced by the size of substituents and their spatial arrangement. In the case of ortho-di-chlorobenzene versus meta and para isomers, the larger bromine substituents create steric hindrance, leading to decreased stability in the ortho position. The para isomer is generally the most stable due to minimized steric interactions. Understanding these concepts is crucial for predicting the stability of various benzene derivatives.

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Which of the following is most stable. Ortho, meta, or para benzene? Also, why is this the case.
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your question makes no sense seing as benzen has no substituants to compare stability. And no hydrogens don't count as substituants
 
you may want to check the question just incase you may have miss-spelt the compound.

For example ortho-di-chlorobenzene can be compared to meta or para dichlorobenze in terms of stabilites
 
OMG sorry about that! I forgot to include the branch names. Assume the branches are bromine
 
well then that makes things a lot more clearer...know assuming you know how the orth meta and para positions look like on a molecule and the trend for increasing ionic radius you can further deduce that bromine is a fairly large molecule thus it wants its space otherwise if forced to close to another large molecule it would make it unstable.

From this i think you can figure out which orientation is the most stable
 

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