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The number of -electrons in the molecules of aromatic compound is

  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D

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According to Hückel's Rule of Aromaticity, a planar, cyclic, continuously conjugated ring system shows aromatic stability if its delocalized cloud contains exactly -electrons, where is a non-negative integer ().Common examples include benzene ( -electrons, where ) and naphthalene ( -electrons, where ).

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B
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