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Subject - Organic Chemistry
Compounds and functional groups are defined as nucleophiles if they possess Lewis base characteristics or if, because of their negative charge or partial charge, they can be attacked by electron deficient compounds (electrophilic compounds). Nucleophile means nucleus lover and the name is applied to compounds that exhibit an electron excess.
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