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Why is bromoethane more reactive than bromobenzene

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Bromobenzene:

Bromobenze has the chemical formula

.

The resonating structures of Bromobenzene are given below:

Reactivity:

In most (1st image of sn1 and sn2) and reactions, bromobenzene is unreactive.

It is mostly due to the extremely strong carbon-bromine bond present.

As a result, despite its capacity to exit the group, bromine will remain in the aromatic ring.

As a result, in the case of

, the ring structure prevents a backside assault, but in the case of

, carbocation does not occur.

Furthermore, phenyl carbocations are notoriously unstable.

Hence, Bromobenzene is unreactive.

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