The molecule shown here is styrene, C8H8, a benzene derivative that is used to make a number of polymers, including polystyrene. The shorthand notation for the benzene ring (described in Section 8.6) is used. Three of the carbon–carbon bonds are numbered in the structure.

a. Which of the three bonds is the strongest?

b. Which of the three bonds is the longest?

c. Which of the three bonds is best described as halfway between a single and a double bond? [Sections 8.6 and 8.8]

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Hi everyone, so I asked. The following statements is true For the bond length infinite three. If you look at a typical band lint for Cinnabon, This is 154 km for double bond, This is 133 km. If you look at the length of the single bonds, We see that they live between 133 and 154. This is going to be C. The carbon carbon bond length of three are similar to the intermediate between the carbon, carbon. Single bonds in the carbon carbon double bonds, and this is because it exhibits a resonance hybrid. So the bonds are average, they're gonna be somewhere in between. Thanks for watching my video and I hope it was up for