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nucleophiles

nucleophiles is the plural of nucleophile.

Meaning of nucleophile

Noun

nucleophile (plural nucleophiles)

  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.

Questions about nucleophiles

What is nucleophiles the plural of?
Nucleophiles is the plural of nucleophile.

Words near nucleophiles in the dictionary

  1. nucleonics
  2. nucleons
  3. nucleopetal
  4. nucleophagy
  5. nucleophile
  6. nucleophiles
  7. nucleophilic
  8. nucleophilic substitution
  9. nucleophilic substitutions
  10. nucleophilically
  11. nucleophilicities

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