
12.11 The Allyl System: Three Overlapping 2p Orbitals 541
12.12 The Diels–Alder Reaction of Conjugated Dienes 544
12.13 Special Topic: Biosynthesis of Terpenes 554
12.14 Special Topic: Steroid Biosynthesis 559
12.15 Summary 563
12.16 Additional Problems 564
13 Conjugation and Aromaticity 571
13.1 Preview 572
13.2 The Structure of Benzene 573
13.3 A Resonance Picture of Benzene 575
13.4 The Molecular Orbital Picture of Benzene 578
13.5 Quantitative Evaluations of Resonance Stabilization in Benzene 580
13.6 A Generalization of Aromaticity: Hückel’s 4n + 2 Rule 582
13.7 Substituted Benzenes 595
13.8 Physical Properties of Substituted Benzenes 598
13.9 Heterobenzenes and Other Heterocyclic Aromatic Compounds 598
13.10 Polynuclear Aromatic Compounds 602
13.11 Introduction to the Chemistry of Benzene 606
13.12 The Benzyl Group and Its Reactivity 610
13.13 Special Topic: The Bio-Downside, the Mechanism of Carcinogenesis
by Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds 614
13.14 Summary 617
13.15 Additional Problems 619
14 Substitution Reactions of Aromatic Compounds 623
14.1 Preview 624
14.2 Hydrogenation of Aromatic Compounds 626
14.3 Diels–Alder Reactions 628
14.4 Substitution Reactions of Aromatic Compounds 631
14.5 Carbon–Carbon Bond Formation: Friedel–Crafts Alkylation 639
14.6 Friedel–Crafts Acylation 643
14.7 Synthetic Reactions We Can Do So Far 646
14.8 Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution of Heteroaromatic Compounds 652
14.9 Disubstituted Benzenes: Ortho, Meta, and Para Substitution 655
14.10 Inductive Effects in Aromatic Substitution 666
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