Question

Why aromatic hydrocarbons are used in air fresheners and mothballs.
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Answer 1

Answer:

Naphthalene. Naphthalene is the simplest polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon since it is only a bicyclic molecule made up of two aromatic benzenes. ... Naphthalene is also planar and has 4n + 2 pi electrons (10) giving it the stabilizing and resonating aromatic properties shared with benzene