Clemmensen reduction

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Clemmensen reduction (countable and uncountable, plural Clemmensen reductions)

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