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nucleofuge +‎ -ic

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nucleofugic (comparative more nucleofugic, superlative most nucleofugic)

  1. Of or pertaining to a nucleofuge
    • 1991, Advances in Physical Organic Chemistry[1], volume 26, page 2:
      The species that reacts with the nucleophile is not the substrate but the aryl radical deriving from its anion radical by cleavage of the nucleofugic group.

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