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- adjective chemistry of, or relating to a
nucleophile
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Examples
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Reactions resulting from this type of attraction are called nucleophilic substitution.
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Once decarboxylated, tryptamine (step 2) is dimethylated by S-adenosyl-methionine (SAM) via nucleophilic attack.
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A nucleophilic molecule like the oxygen on the phosphate group will form a covalent bond with close to all of the hypothesized prebiotic molecules in that scenario.
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Seems that the species can also undergo aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions with certain perfluorinated arenes, to afford metallocarboxylic acids.
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Seems that the species can also undergo aromatic nucleophilic substitution reactions with certain perfluorinated arenes, to afford metallocarboxylic acids.
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In nucleophilic substitution the attacking reagent
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To achieve this, he used solvents which were so extremely little nucleophilic that they did not attack carbocations.
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Two of the commonest and most widely used reactions in synthetic organic chemistry are nucleophilic substitution and elimination.
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These are exemplified below with isopropyl chloride which, in the presence of the nucleophile Nu -, reacts to give a nucleophilic substitution product and/or an elimination product:
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It was necessary to get them to react more slowly with solvents and other nucleophilic molecules.
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