Q.1
What is the other name of hydrocarbon?
  • Alkenes
  • Alkynes
  • Arenes
  • Alkanes
Q.2
How was the current accepted structure of benzene discovered?
  • NMR
  • Staring at it intently under an electron microscope
  • X-ray diffraction
  • Edexcel discovered it
Q.3
What is the resonance energy of Benzene?
  • 151 KJ mol-1
  • 152 KJ mol-1
  • 153 KJ mol-1
  • 154 KJ mol-1
Q.4
How did Kakule try to account for the initial problems with his original benzene structure?
  • Told his critics to deal with it
  • Crouched in a corner and cry
  • Proposed an equilibrium model
  • Made a new model with international bond length
Q.5
Which mechanism an aromatic compounds react by?
  • Electrophilic addition
  • Electrophilic substitution
  • Nucleophilic addition
  • Nucleophilic substitution
Q.6
What is the accepted current view of the model for bonding in benzene?
  • Delocalised model
  • Kekule structure
  • Resonance structure
  • Arrhenius structure
Q.7
Which two of these statements about the delocalised model of benzene are true?
  • Each carbon has three sigma bonds with two other carbon atoms and one hydrogen atom, using three bonding electrons
  • Benzene is a regular hexagon of carbon bonds with the same length with bonds to hydrogen at the corners
  • The delocalised electrons form a ring of electron density in the plane of the benzene ring
  • Both A & B
Q.8
Aromatic compounds usually undergo which type of reaction?
  • Electrophilic substitution reaction
  • Electrophilic addition reaction
  • Nucleophilic substitution reaction
  • Nucleophilic addition reaction
Q.9
What is the other name of aromatic hydrocarbons?
  • Alkenes
  • Alkynes
  • Arenes
  • Alkanes
Q.10
Benzene is ......
  • trigonal planar
  • boat shaped
  • planar
  • chair shaped
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