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13.17     Write down the products of ozonolysis of 1,2-dimethylbenzene (o-xylene). How does the result support Kekulé structure for benzene?

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Ortho-xylene has two resonant structure so,

Since all three products, methylglyoxal, 1, 2-methylglyoxal and glyoxal are cannot be obtained from any one of the two structure (i and ii). Hence we can say that o-xylene is a resonant hybrid of two Kekule structure (I and II)
 

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