Look, don’t tell anyone but actually at university level - this whole ‘circle’ version of drawing benzene goes out the window and we go back to using the Kekule version in reactions and mechanisms! It requires knowledge of resonance and the C=C bonds end up moving around the ring using curly arrows.
Is it possible to do the mechanism with the kekule structure? How would that even work?
Look, don’t tell anyone but actually at university level - this whole ‘circle’ version of drawing benzene goes out the window and we go back to using the Kekule version in reactions and mechanisms! It requires knowledge of resonance and the C=C bonds end up moving around the ring using curly arrows.