Question

The ionisation of covalent compound takes place by:

• A. nucleophillic attack
• B. electrophilic attack
• C. non polar solvent
• D. none of these

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B)

electrophilic attack
nucleophillic attack

In covalent compound we have sharing of electrons, but addition of nucleophile generate negative charge and addition of electrophile generate positive charge and these generation of positive and negative charge is known as ionization.