| In the mining industry, the production of TNT is made possible by the electrophilic nitration of toluene. |
| Methyl lithium is very reactive and acts as a nucleophilic methylating reagent to electrophilic functional groups, such as ketones. |
| Ozone is a strong electrophilic reagent which can attack the double bond found in alkenes. |
| Under rigorous conditions benzene will undergo substitution for one of its hydrogen substituents, by a process called electrophilic aromatic substitution. |
| When these precursors are chlorinated, the key reaction is electrophilic aromatic substitution. |
| The most common substitution reactions of compounds of non-metallic elements are nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution. |
