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What is a nucleophile?

What is a nucleophile? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (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.
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A nucleophile is any negative ion or neutral molecule whose electronic configuration consists of at least one unpaired electron pair.
A theoretical study of the role of an anionic palladium complex in the cross-coupling of an aryl halide with an anionic nucleophile.
It can react either as an oxidant or a reducing agent, is a very good nucleophile, and is a base that can be protonated.
Solvolysis is a special type of nucleophilic substitution where the nucleophile is a solvent molecule, such as alcohols and water.
The species that reacts with the nucleophile is not the substrate but the aryl radical deriving from its anion radical by cleavage of the nucleofugic group.
It is a nucleophile able to trap electrophilic mutagens in lipophilic compartments and generates a metabolite that facilitates natriuresis.

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