Why does ether act as a nucleophile?

1.	Why does ether act as a nucleophile?
Answer» CT as a nucleophile: Ethers (ROR) involves ETHEREAL OXYGEN with two lone pairs of electrons and acts like Lewis bases. As all bases are Nucleophiles but all the nucleophiles are not bases. It is ethereal oxygen with two lone pairs of electrons that attack CONCENTRATED. acid(protonic) to make oxonium salts. Attackers acids (lewis acids like BF3, AlCl3, etc) form complexes. Therefore, we can say that it acts as a nucleophile. Hope it helped...

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