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Nucleophilic Aliphatic Substitution

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A nucleophilic aliphatic substitution is a nucleophilic substitution reaction in which the ligand replaced by the nucleophile is bonded to a carbon atom that is neither a member of an aromatic ring nor a carbonyl carbon.

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see also nucleophilic aromatic substitution


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