nucleophile
nounEtymology From nucleo- + -phile.
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Chemistry, Natural sciences, Physical sciences 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.
- Derived terms
- binucleophile, bionucleophile, carbonucleophile, dinucleophile, heteronucleophile, nucleophilic, pronucleophile
- Related terms
- Lewis base