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Explain why displacement of cyanide ion and amide ion by other nucleophiles is not observed in nucleophilic substitution reaction. |
Answer» both cyanide ion `(CN^(-))` and amide ion `(NH_(2)^(-))` are themselves powerful powerful necleophiles and it is not easy to displace them by other nucleophiles in the nucleophilic substitution substitution reaction. | |