Reactivity 3.4 – Electron-pair sharing reactions

R3.4.4 – Electrophiles

  • Electrophiles are electron-deficient species
  • Electrophiles acccept electron pairs from other species (nucleophiles) to form a coordinate bond
  • Electrophiles can be neutral or positively charged

Examples

H2O – neutral

H+– positively charged (cations)