Nucleophile

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an electrophile to form a bond.

Etymology

From nucleo- + -phile.

Related phrases

electron pairfunctional grouplewis base

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