English Explanatory Dictionary

Clemmensen reduction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.

Word forms

Clemmensen reduction Clemmensen reductions

Etymology

Named after Erik Christian Clemmensen, the chemist who discovered this reaction.

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