10.17 What are ambident nucleophiles? Explain with an example.

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Ambident Nucleophiles are those nucleophilies which can attack through different sites. For example:-cyanide ions are a resonance hybrid of the following two structures:

It can attack through carbon to form cyanide and through N to form is O cyanide. Example: NO2, NO3 - etc.

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