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Benzene is the archetypical aromatic compound. It is planar, bond angles=120Âº, all carbon atoms in the ring are sp2 hybridized, and the pi-orbitals are occupied by 6 electrons. The aromatic heterocycle pyridine is similar to benzene, and is often used as a weak base for scavenging protons.
A third step is to consider reactivity. For example, if you have a C=C double bond, you can add, say, bromine to it Thus C2H4 gives C2H4Br2, and by adding two bromine atoms you know you have one double bond. Again, benzene becomes an awkward molecule, but because of this, you know benzene does not have double bonds in the traditional sense