Which of the following is not true about Meissenheimer complexes?
a. They are resonance-stabilized anions
b. They are formed upon addition of a nucleophile to aryl halides
c. They are aromatic
d. They are intermediates in nucleophilic aromatic substitution reaction which take place by an addition-elimination mechanism
e. All of them are true
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