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noun-A reagent that forms a chemical bond to its reaction partner by donating both bonding electrons

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Usage examples (12)
  • These are exemplified below with isopropyl chloride which, in the presence of the nucleophile Nu -, reacts to give a nucleophilic substitution product and/or an...
  • Drosophila enzyme are observed with a nucleophile-Ala variant with the − 1 subsite sugar
  • You're an electrophile and I'm a nucleophile, we're attracted and we can make each other happy.
  • Here we report an example of thymidylate biosynthesis that occurs without an enzymatic nucleophile.
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