"nucleophile" meaning in All languages combined

See nucleophile on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nucleophile.wav [US], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Tesco250-nucleophile.wav [UK] Forms: nucleophiles [plural]
Etymology: From nucleo- + -phile. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|nucleo|phile}} nucleo- + -phile Head templates: {{en-noun}} nucleophile (plural nucleophiles)
  1. (chemistry) 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. Derived forms: binucleophile, bionucleophile, carbonucleophile, dinucleophile, heteronucleophile, nucleophilic, pronucleophile Related terms: Lewis base Translations (compound or functional group attractive to centres of positive charge): nukleofil [masculine] (Czech), Nukleophil [neuter] (German), 求核剤 (kyūkakuzai) (alt: きゅうかくざい) (Japanese), هستهدوست (haste-dust) (Persian), нуклеофил (nukleofil) [masculine] (Russian)

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