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Electrophile Thesaurus

(chemistry) A compound or functional group that is attracted to, and accepts electrons, especially accepting an electron pair from a nucleophile to form a bond.

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Related dictionary entries include electrophil, nucleophile, dinucleophile, pronucleophile, electroauxiliary, carbonucleophile.

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