What the diffrent between basicity and nucleophicility ?!?!?!
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Well basicity is the propensity of the species to act as the electron pair acceptor in an acid-base reaction.....
Explanation:
And thus....
Ammonia here acts a base...an electron pair donor, in aqueous solution as a source of hydroxide ions....and certainly this equilibrium reaction is measurable...
On the other hand, ammonia could also behave as a nucleophile; the nitrogen-based electron pairs could donate to an electrophilic centre, to form, say, a
(And note that in some circumstances, the product methylamine could react with further equivalents methyl bromide to give up to
And here the ammonia has clearly acted as a nucleophile, whereas triethylamine has acted as a base....anyway please read your organic text for further detail.