Is CN- and organometallic compounds can act as both nucleophile aswellas electrophile.
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19th Jan, 2019
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CN- is an organometallic compound but it can only be used as a nucleophile.
nucleophile is a species (an ion or a molecule) which is strongly attracted to a region of positive charge in something else.
Nucleophiles are either fully negative ions, or else have a strongly partial - charge somewhere on a molecule.
In the case of the cyanide ion, there is a full negative charge on the carbon, as well as a lone pair of electrons.
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