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Nucleophilic Addition at the Carbonyl

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Benzyl carbonation is more stable than ethyl carbocation.Justify.

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Because ethyl carbocation has only one carbon to help stabilize sigma plus charge whereas in benzyl ring, there are five carbons present and according to the Zaitzev's rule, the more carbon around C+, the more stability it has.

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