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Why do carbonyl compounds undergo nucleophilic addition readily and not electrophilic?

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Why do carbonyl compounds undergo nucleophilic addition readily and not electrophilic?

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Sagar Saxena

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5 Sep 2011 03:30:23 IST

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at the carbon .........patialy +ve charge occurs because in C=O bond o is more electro -ve atom hence at carbon .patialy +ve charge created .

therefore carbonyl compounds undergo nucleophilic addition

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