nucleophile
Meaning of nucleophile
noun
A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an electrophile to form a bond.
Information about nucleophile
- It is a name.
- The plural form of nucleophile is: nucleophiles.
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Hyphenation of nucleophile
nu-cle-ophile
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- nucleophile is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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