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The nucleophiles which can attack through two different sites are miled ambident nucleophiles. For example, cyanide is an ambident nucleophile because it can attack through C or N because of the following resonance structures :
`^(-)bb( : )C-=Nbb( : ) harr bb( : )C=ddotNbb( : )`
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