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Introduction

Benzene is one of the most important compounds of organic chemistry, this has six less
hydrogen atoms than the cycloalcan with six carbon atoms (C6H12) and is clearly
unsaturated, usually depicted as a six-member ring with alternation of double links and
singles. However, benzene should not be considered as an alquene as it is much less
reactive than this
Structuring sentence

It is easy to make arguments for and against because benzene is not considered an alsigne

(Thesis statement)

I'm going to argue why benzene shouldn't be considered a cyclohexene.

Development

First of all, benzene is much less reactive than typical alnines and does not experience the
addition reaction typical of alquens. For example, cyclohedine reacts quickly with Br2 and
gives the product addition 1.2-dibromocyclohene, but benzene reacts slowly with Br2 and
gives the replacement product C6H5Br. Another evidence of the unusual nature of benzene
which is important is that all its carbon-carbon bonds have the same intermediate length
between typical simple bonds and double bonds. However many chemists think it is
important to compare benzene with alqueenes

On the other hand, there are many reasons why it is important to consider benzene to be an
alcene. One of the reasons is because both are hydrocarbons which means they contain
hydrogen and carbon. Another reason is that they contain between two of their carbon
double bonds and these carbons that support the double bond have hibiracion sp2. If we
consider benzene to be an alquene, we will delimit the reactivity of benzene. Since benzene
is a hybrid of two equivalent forms. No way by itself is correct. Benzene will be considered an
alquenun if it did not have its links of the same size. If the benzene doesn`t considered a
resonance hybrid, this won`t considered a alkene.

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