Basically, I read that nucleophilicity increases going down the periodic table within a particular group, due to polarizability, but basicity decreases down a group (or family) in the periodic table, because those atoms can stabilize a negative charge, making them good leaving groups. Don't these two points seem to contradict each other, since increasing nucleophilicity should increase basicity?
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$\begingroup$ chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/20061/… $\endgroup$– MithoronCommented May 31, 2020 at 20:08
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