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why resonance energy of naphthalene is less than benzene

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Sagar Saxena

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26 Aug 2011 02:32:26 IST

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the carbon-carbon bonds in naphthalene show variation in length, suggesting some localization of the double bonds.

but in

benzene all the C–C bonds have a common length,

,Hence,

according to the variation of bond length the resonance energy of naphthalene is less than benzene

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