Question

the bond order of individual carbon bonds in benzene is .....

Answer 1

Benzene is an aromatic cyclic compound, and hence, has resonance structures. In this compound, 6 pi electrons are shared by 6 carbon atoms; every carbon has half a pi bond and one sigma bond. Thus, the bond order of benzene is 1.5 for each bond.

Answer 2

Answer:

benzene is a hybrid structure of resonance,it's double bonds keep shifting so at a time one carbon atoms get more partial positive charge and one gets partial negative charge , resonance is hypothetical ,it doesn't real in exists ,so we take average of double bond plus single bond average in 2 atoms that is 3 divide by 2 equals to 1.5 ,we assume bond of order 1.5 exists in between carbon atoms that's why we draw dotted lines or circle in between benzene