Question

17. With the help of resonating structures explain why halogens in haloarenes
are ortho, para directing but ring deactivating in nature.
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Answer 1

Answer:

Halogens are very electronegative. This means that inductively they are electron withdrawing. However, because of their ability to donate a lone pair of electrons in resonance forms, they are activators and ortho/para directing. ... Electron withdrawing groups are meta directors and they are deactivators.