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Why are benzene rings more stable than alkenes?

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The six carbon atoms form a perfectly regular hexagon. All of the carbon-carbon bonds have exactly the same lengths - somewhere between single and double bonds. There are delocalized electrons above and below the plane of the ring, which makes benzene particularly stable.
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