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Old January 11th, 2006, 22:32
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n can be any positive integer. Benzene has 6 electrons in it's aromatic conjugated system; 4n+2 = 6 gives an n = 1. An aromatic compound with n = 2 will have 10 electrons in it's aromatic system.