JEE Main Chemistry question

Alkyl groups are *ortho,para*-directing (and activating) in electrophilic aromatic substitution because of

Answer: (D)

Solution

Alkyl substituents have no lone pair to donate by classical resonance, but they stabilise the cationic (arenium) intermediate both inductively (+I)

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