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What does electrophilic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word electrophilic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (chemistry) of, or relating to an electrophile; electron deficient
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Ozone is a strong electrophilic reagent which can attack the double bond found in alkenes.
This reaction is initiated by the electrophilic protonation of isobutylene.
There are many important industrial processes that use electrophilic reactions.
Methyl lithium is very reactive and acts as a nucleophilic methylating reagent to electrophilic functional groups, such as ketones.
The most common substitution reactions of compounds of non-metallic elements are nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution.
Halogenation occurs readily with aniline by electrophilic aromatic substitution.

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