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Why is benzene negative to baeyer's inspite of the presence of pi bonds?

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  1. Baeyers test is negative for aromatics, there are no double bonds in benzene despite the common drawing of it, electron are delocalized in the pi system of the 6 carbons (pi orbitals of each carbon overlap with each other) and since there are no double bonds the permanganate does not react.
    Baeyers test detects double bonds not pi orbitals

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