Why should resonance occur in benzene?

  • #1
ajaysabarish
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the carbon in benzene is sp2 hybridized and the p orbital is involved in double bond.sp2 orbitals and p orbitals are perpendicular to each other,for any electronic transition between orbitals,the orbitals should not be perpendicular.so how does pi electron go to carbon's orbital?
 
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  • #2
ajaysabarish said:
the p orbital is involved in double bond

There are no double bonds in benzene.

Google "aromaticity".
 
  • #3
Borek said:
There are no double bonds in benzene.

Google "aromaticity".
thank you for replying sir,but sir as far as i know,a pair of pi electrons get transferred to carbon orbitals the + and - charges form a bond.and it proceeds,iam asking how does the pi electron get transferred to carbon orbital,because the hybridized orbitals of carbon and pi orbital in which electrons are perpendicular.please reply
 

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