Given below are two statements:
Statement I: Tropolone is an aromatic compound and has 8p electrons.
Statement II: p 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 8p electrons.

Statement II: p 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 8p electrons (6 $pe^{-}$ are endocyclic and $2 pe^{-}$ are exocyclic) and p electrons of

group in tropolone is not involved in aromaticity.

aromatic compound ( $6 π e^{-}$ )

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