Nucleophilic Solvent
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A nucleophilic solvent is a solvent that acts as the nucleophile in a reaction. The most common nucleophile solvents are water and alcohols.
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mechanism:
In this nucleophilic substitution reaction, the solvent water acts as the nucleophile as well.
Contributors and Attributions
- Gamini Gunawardena from the OChemPal site (Utah Valley University)