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Which of the Following Statements Is TRUE

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) During the electrophilic aromatic substitutions, the resonance stabilized carbocation reacts with a base to give the addition product.
B) Aromatic compounds are very reactive because they contain more than one C=C double bond in their structure.
C) The rate-determining (slow) step of electrophilic aromatic substitutions is the deprotonation of the carbocation intermediate.
D) Unlike alkenes, aromatic compounds almost always prefer electrophilic substitution over electrophilic addition.
E) During the electrophilic aromatic substitution a Bronsted or Lewis acid is required to generate the nucleophile from an aromatic substrate.

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