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Molecules with this property bind preferentially to ligands with even hapticity according to the Davies–Green–Mingos rules. An increase in this property due to lone pairs on atoms adjacent to a functional group of interest is described by the alpha effect. A reaction between an arene and a molecule with this property produces a reactive intermediate called the Meisenheimer complex. Solvents with this property react with their solutes in solvolysis reactions. A leaving group is kicked off an aromatic ring by a molecule with this property in the SNAr (“S-N-A-R”) mechanism. Inversion of chiral symmetry (10[1])occurs after a “backside attack” from a molecule with this property in SN2 reactions. For 10 points, name this property of molecules that can donate an electron pair to an electrophile. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: nucleophilicity [or nucleophiles; accept nucleophilic abstraction; accept nucleophilic aromatic substitution; accept Lewis bases or Lewis basic until read; prompt on bases or basic]
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