Nucleophile & Electrophile
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Amanda Salgado 3D
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Nucleophile & Electrophile
Why is CH3Cl considered an electrophile (electron deficient) when chlorine has six electrons around it?
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Paul Sedaros 1B
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Re: Nucleophile & Electrophile
CH3Cl is an electrophile because the electronegativity of chlorine is much stronger than that of carbon, so chlorine has a delta negative while carbon has a delta positive. Therefore, the carbon wants to gain electrons, and the chlorine then wants to breaks off from the molecule because its electron shell is full. (This is just a brief overview of why the molecule is an electrophile).
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