Consider the benzene molecule.Which of the following statements about the molecule is false?
A) All six C-C bonds are known to be equivalent.
B) Each carbon atom is sp2 hybridized.
C) The localized electron model must invoke resonance to account for the six equal C-C bonds.
D) It has delocalized pi bonding in the molecule.
E) The pi bonds of carbon involve sp2 orbitals.
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