Out of chlorobenzene and benzyl chloride, which one gets easily hydrolysed by aq NaOH and why?

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it is difficult to hydrolyse chlorobenzene. this is becz the lone pair of cl atom is delocalised over the dbl bond ring of benzenewhich aads dbl bond character to the  c-cl bond of chlorobenzene.this makes the bond strngr and shrterdue to which is cant be hydrolysed easily
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