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Define ambident nucleophiles with an example.

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Ambident nucleophile:
Anionic species whose negative charge is deloclised by resonance on two unlike atoms or two like but non-equivalent atoms and they act as two different nucleophilic centres. Examples of such kind of nucleophiles are Cyanide and Thiocyanate ions.


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