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Why does benzene undergo electrophilic substitution reactions easily and nucleophilic substitutions with difficulty?
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Benzene has the presence of \(\pi\) bonded electron which are delocalised. Hence, any electrophile can attack easily on the electrons of benzene ring. Thus Benzene favours electrophilic substitution reaction.
Nucleophile are electron rich species, electrons of benzene ring repels the nucleophile making nucleophilic substitution difficult to occur.
Nucleophile are electron rich species, electrons of benzene ring repels the nucleophile making nucleophilic substitution difficult to occur.
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