Associations to the word «Nucleophile»

Wiktionary

NUCLEOPHILE, noun. (chemistry) 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

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne