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What is the order of stability of the following carbocations?

Carbocations

I think that it is clear thatt the first two are more stable than the last 2 as they involve resonance in ring, i.e. the mesomeric effect. Also as the first one has a bigger carbon group attached to it so it will show a larger inductive effect, therefore $1>2$. The third one has a tertiary carbon which is stabilized by hyperconjugation, while the fourthth shows resonance.
As resonance is given more priority the fourth should be more stable, but this doesn't match with the answer.

Martin - マーチン
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    It's very hard to actually just state the sequence, unless you have the relative stability of benzyl/allyl/tertiary carbocations committed to memory. However what I can say is that it's very dangerous to simply make generalisations like "resonance is stronger than inductive effect" - these are the "rules" that will lead you to incorrect conclusions. – orthocresol Jan 07 '16 at 14:59
  • The actual order is given in the question here: http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/27086/carbocation-stability-order – orthocresol Jan 07 '16 at 15:04
  • This is in part addressed here: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/74943/4945 and https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/72825/4945 – Martin - マーチン Jan 15 '18 at 11:18

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