Given below are two statements :
Statement I : Tropolone is an aromatic compound and has $8 π$ electrons.
Statement II : $π$ electrons of $> C = O$ group in tropolone is involved in aromaticity. In the light of the above statements choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Given below are two statements :

Statement I : Tropolone is an aromatic compound and has $8 π$ electrons.

Statement II : $π$ electrons of $> C = O$ group in tropolone is involved in aromaticity. In the light of the above statements choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Tropolone is an aromatic compound and has 8 π electrons ( 6 πe - are endocyclic and 2 πe - are exocyclic) and π electrons of > C = O group in tropolone is not involved in aromaticity.

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