Help with benzene please

Hi, I'm currently doing a preparatory worksheet for some advanced benzene mechanisms.
I'm having a bit of trouble with this question.

Explain why it is much more difficult to hydrolyse 1-chloro-4-ethyl-benzene than (1-chloro-ethyl)benzene (2)


Is it to do with the declocalised pi electrons?

Thanks for your help

Heya, I'm going to put this in the Chemistry forum for you as you should get more responses there.

You should also check out the forum to see if there's any other threads there which might be helpful to you! http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=130
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Hi, I'm currently doing a preparatory worksheet for some advanced benzene mechanisms.
I'm having a bit of trouble with this question.

Explain why it is much more difficult to hydrolyse 1-chloro-4-ethyl-benzene than (1-chloro-ethyl)benzene (2)


Is it to do with the declocalised pi electrons?

Thanks for your help