Aromaticity - Scientific Vocabulary

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Aromaticity, Hückel’s Rule, and Electrophilic Substitution — Aromatic systems possess an exceptionally stable, continuously conjugated, planar ring system containing (4n+2) delocalized π electrons. Because this resonance creates a large thermodynamic stabilization energy barrier, benzene resists standard addition reactions, transitioning instead through Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution (EArS) steps.