Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
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ISBN: 9780321803221
Author: Paula Y. Bruice
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Chapter 21, Problem 41P
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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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