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Title: What is means of Hard centres and soft centres..???
Post by: AdiDex on August 19, 2014, 01:17:31 PM

What is means of Hard centres and soft centres..??
I just encountered with
"HARD electrophiles tend to react at Oxygen (hard centre)".
Please help me out...
:)

Title: Re: What is means of Hard centres and soft centres..???
Post by: Corribus on August 19, 2014, 02:28:07 PM

From HSAB theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSAB_theory

Title: Re: What is means of Hard centres and soft centres..???
Post by: zsinger on August 19, 2014, 03:10:05 PM

Not a hard concept to understand at all.  Let us know if you have any further questions, and I will be happy to explain it, as this one is rather straight forward.  (It's not activities!)
           -Zack

Title: Re: What is means of Hard centres and soft centres..???
Post by: AdiDex on August 26, 2014, 02:26:18 PM

I Got that..
No doubts....
:)