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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.

    eg:

    mechanism:

    In this nucleophilic substitution reaction, the solvent water acts as the nucleophile as well.