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What does electrophile mean?

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  1. (chemistry) a compound or functional group that is attractive to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond
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In this electrophilic aromatic substitution, the first electrophile is the Lewis acid that accepts the halogen from an alkyl halide.
In this reaction the electrophile is produced when the methyl chloride reacts with the aluminum chloride to form an electropositive CH 3 group.
This produces the second electrophile, the positively charged alkyl group.
A nitronium ion, made by treating nitric acid with sulfuric acid, is the electrophile.

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