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Organic Chemistry: Structure and Electronic Effects
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Assertion: Six p-orbitals in benzene combine to form three bonding and three antibonding molecular orbitals.
Reason: Each bonding orbital contains a pair of electrons with opposite spins.
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Both A and R are true but R is NOT the correct explanation of A.
💡 Explanation:
According to the principle of LCAO, number of MO’s is equal to the number of combining AO’s; half of which are bonding and the rest of the half are antibonding. Thus, this option is correct.