Electrophiles are reagents attracted to electrons.
Electrophiles tend to be electron-deficient and carry partial positive charges. They are attracted to species with lone pairs of electrons. For example, protons
have no electrons and tend to share ones with other species, hence behaving as electrophiles in aqueous reactions. In the reaction between
and ammonia
, protons would be attracted to lone electron pairs on nitrogen atoms in ammonia molecules, which carry partial positive charges.
The Lewis Acid-base theory define Acids as species that accept electron pairs in a particular acid-base reaction. Electrophiles, by definition, tend to accept electrons. Lewis acids thus behaves as electrophiles in acid-base reactions. In the previous example,
demonstrates acidic behavior and can be inferred as an electrophile.
Answer:
Adaptations
Explanation:
Adaptation is simply defined as a specific characteristics of an animal or plant which can be a body part, body covering, or behavior that helps an animal or plant survive in its environment.
The common types of Adaptations includes Physical adaptation which entails a change to a part of the body and Behavioral adaptation which is simply what an animal does in response to an external stimulus.
Examples of Adaptation includes Hibernation, Camouflage, Mimicry, Whiskers, Beaks and others. In plants, seed colour, hard endocarp, secretions e. t. c helps them survive in their environment.
Heating the reaction flask on a hot plate is an example of supplying activation energy to begin a reaction.
Explanation:
<u>Definition:</u>
Activation energy is defined as the minimum amount of energy required to start a particular chemical reaction.
For example: When hydrogen and oxygen are mixed together it does not immediately start the reaction to form water. So, to start the reaction a small electric spark is provided or it is heated to provide some energy. This energy causes the molecules of hydrogen and water to react, thus producing even more molecules to react and finally water is formed.
Here the electric spark or the heat provided is the activation energy.
There are 76 atoms in total