Organic Chemistry Study Guide and Solutions Manual, Books a la Carte Edition (8th Edition)
Organic Chemistry Study Guide and Solutions Manual, Books a la Carte Edition (8th Edition)
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Author: Paula Yurkanis Bruice
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Chapter 20, Problem 44P
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The identification of compound A and B is to be stated.

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Sodium borohydride is a strong reducing agent. It reduces an aldehyde group into an alcohol.  The Wohl degradation is used in order to reduce the chain of an aldose by one carbon.  Thus, hexoses are reduces to pentoses, and pentoses are reduces to tetroses.

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