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Simfish
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I'm only talking about carbon-carbon double/triple bonds here.
A nucleophilic atom is one that would donate electrons to an electrophile (often a highly electronegative atom like oxygen or a halogen). Anyways, what about carbon-carbon double bonds? I'm inclined to think that they're less nucleophilic since their formal chage is reduced by the double bond (so there are fewer electrons to go around each carbon atom).
Does the same logic apply to resonance structures in benzene rings?
A nucleophilic atom is one that would donate electrons to an electrophile (often a highly electronegative atom like oxygen or a halogen). Anyways, what about carbon-carbon double bonds? I'm inclined to think that they're less nucleophilic since their formal chage is reduced by the double bond (so there are fewer electrons to go around each carbon atom).
Does the same logic apply to resonance structures in benzene rings?