vikas askiitian expert
Last Activity: 14 Years ago
dear chirrag ,
i m explaning this with the help of an example
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CH0 - CH2 - C - CH3 => CHO - CH2 - CH(OH )- CH3 ,
if we want to carry out this conversion then the simplest way is to protect aldehyde group & then reduction of ketonic group will give desired product ...
for this , first step is protection of aldehyde group which is done by reaction with glycol (.CHOHCHOH) ..
product of this reaction is acetal , then by LiAlH4 this c=0 group is reduced to alcohol n finally
by using few drops of acid , acetal again converts to aldehyde ...