Example 1 · difficulty 3/5
Why is the carbon–chlorine bond in chlorobenzene shorter and stronger than the carbon–chlorine bond in a typical chloroalkane?
- A. Chlorine loses all lone pairs in chlorobenzene
- B. The benzene ring converts chlorine into a positive ion
- C. Resonance gives the bond partial double-bond character, and the ring carbon is sp2-hybridised
- D. The bond becomes a pure ionic bond in chlorobenzene