What are ambident nucleophiles ? Explain with the example.

Explanation

Ambident nucleophiles are the rengents which have two nucleophilic centres. Groups
Iike .overlineC N. which can attack either from carbon or nitrogen. Actually cyanide group is a hybrid of two contributing structures .(therefore barC equiv N: rarr: ddotC geqslant vecN:). and can act as.d nucleo-
phile-in two different ways, i.e., linking through carbon atom.resulting in the formation of alký cyanides and. through -nitrogerr atom "leading to the formation of isocyanide.