I’m reading about organic reactions, and I'm trying to understand an example that my book gives me. The example is :
“ In a reaction between 2-methyl-4-phenyl-1-butane and hydrogen chloride, what is most likely to be the main product?”
I get why the main product is (3-chloro-3-methylbutyl)benzene, since the hydrogen in HCl gets added to the carbon atom that already has more hydrogen atoms attached to it from the beginning, but I’m struggling to understand one thing that my book mentions.
In the answer of this example, my book mentions that : “the benzene ring cannot react with hydrogen chloride in an addition reaction”, and now I'm mainly wondering why benzene can't react in an addition reaction. My books doesn’t explain why, but I’m assuming that it has to do something with the unusual structure / delocalized electrons that exist in the benzene ring?
Any help would be appreciated :)