helogens are deactivators but o,p directors ,justify with suitable examples
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Halogens: A Special Case
However, because of their ability to donate a lone pair of electrons in resonance forms, they are activators and ortho/para directing. ... Because they are electron withdrawing, halogens are very weak activators. Electron withdrawing groups are meta directors and they are deactivators.
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