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Nucleophilic Addition

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A nucleophilic addition is, overall, an addition reaction in which a nucleophilic atom in one reactant reacts with a multiple-bonded carbon atom in the other reactant.

eg. 1:

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net reaction:

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eg. 2:

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net reaction:

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