How to pronounce “nitrile” in English

- Nitrile gloves were developed in the late 1980s during the global AIDS pandemic in response to the growing latex allergy.

In nitrile, we see maybe 10 - 20.

But the nitrile and ester groups are so electronegative they pull the extra electron on across the molecule, making this carbon negative.

What makes it so reactive is you have a double bond attached to a nitrile group and an ester group.