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The structure of triphenylmethyl cation is given below. This is very stable and some of its salts can be stored for months. Explain the cause of high stability of this cation.

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The triphenylmethyl cation is very stable because positive charge is delocalised over three benzene rings.

It has nine possible resonating structures.

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