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electron-deficient

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  • These elements behave as nucleophiles, meaning that they generously share their electrons with other electron-deficient molecules.

    Wolfram Blog : What’s Your Favorite Element? 2009

  • Whenever I observe a nitrogen molecule adjacent to a carbon molecule with a double bond, I am reminded that nitrogen tends to pull electrons away, making the carbon electron-deficient.

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • If a molecule is electron-deficient, it becomes electron-hungry, or electrophilic, and can now be looked upon as an oxidizing agent.

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • This activation produces what is now known as superelectrophiles, that is, electrophiles of doubly electron-deficient (dipositive) nature whose reactivity significantly exceeds that of their parents.

    George A. Olah - Autobiography 1995

  • Ahead of the Scapa Flow, two capacitors 'worth of free electrons combined with those from the vaporized netting fibers, the whole mass of them rushing at Van de Graaff speeds toward the most electron-deficient object anywhere around them —

    Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990

  • Organic semiconductor lasers detect explosive vapors because of a chemical interaction between the vapor and the semiconductor in which electrons are transferred from the semiconductor to the electron-deficient vapor molecules.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The presence of an electron-deficient moiety in the middle of the JH agonist is also essential for high activity.

    Elites TV 2009

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