A nucleophile is any negative ion or neutral molecule whose electronic configuration consists of at least one unpaired electron pair. In chemical reactions, the nucleophile attacks the positive center of some other molecule or positive ion, and then...

In chemistry, a nucleophile (literally nucleus lover as in nucleus and phile) is a reagent that forms a chemical bond to its reaction partner (the electrophile) by donating both bonding electrons.[1] Because nucleophiles donate electrons, they are by...