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Q. Arrange the following carbocations in decreasing order of stability
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Organic Chemistry – Some Basic Principles and Techniques

Solution:

Cyclopropylmethyl carbocation is especially stable because of conjugation between the bent orbitals of the cyclopropyl ring and the vacant $p$ -orbitals of the cationic carbon. Thus,

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