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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.
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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