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What are ambident nucleophiles? Explain with an example.

Ambident Nucleophiles are those nucleophilies which can attack through different sites.


For example:-cyanide ions are a resonance hybrid of the following two structures:



It can attack through carbon to form cyanide and through N to form is O cyanide.


Example: NO2, NO3- etc.


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