Question

Anthracene is _____.

• A. Aromatic
• B. non aromatic
• C. anti aromatic
• D. Cannot be predicted

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Aromatic

Anthracene is aromatic. It has planar cyclic conjugated system of 14 pi electrons.
A cyclic planar compounds with a conjugated system of 4n $+$ 2 pi electrons is aromatic.
Note:
$4n+2=4\left(3\right)+2=14$
$n=3$