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What are ambident nucleophiles? Explain with an example ?

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The nucleophile which can attack through different sites are called ambident nucleophiles. For example, Cyanide is an ambident nucleophile because it can attack through C or N because of the following resonance structure :
`""^(-) : C -= N: harr C= ddotN^(-) :`
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