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Q. Chemical formula for ‘inorganic benzene’ is

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Borazine is a compound of boron, nitrogen and hydrogen i.e. $B_3N_3H_6$ and is called an inorganic benzene, because of the similarity of its structure with benzene.
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It has a six membered ring of alternating boron and nitrogen atoms, each of which is further linked to a $H$-atom.