(chemistry) of, or relating to a nucleophile

(uncountable) The condition of being nucleophilic / (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is nucleophilic, or of the reactivity of such a reagent

In a nucleophilic manner.

plural of nucleophilicity

(chemistry) A compound or functional group that is attractive to centres of positive charge, and donates electrons, especially donating an electron pair to an electrophile to form a bond.

plural of nucleophile

(chemistry) in aliphatic organic chemistry, a form of substitution reaction in which the leaving functional group is replaced with a nucleophile

plural of nucleophilic substitution