Arenium ion
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Arenium ion
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An arenium ion in organic chemistry is a cyclohexadienyl cation that appears as a reactive intermediate in electrophilic aromatic substitution.
For historic reasons this complex is also called a Wheland intermediate, after American chemist George Willard Wheland (1907–1976). They are also called sigma complexes. The smallest arenium ion is the benzenium ion (C6H+7), which is protonated benzene. Two hydrogen atoms bonded to one carbon lie in a plane perpendicular to the benzene ring. The arenium
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Forms during electrophilic substitution on benzene ring
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arenium_ion
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2023-06-19T21:55:00Z
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