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Please give me the name of base sensitive groups that are not used for Wolff kishner reduction

Please give me the name of base sensitive groups that are not used for Wolff kishner reduction
 

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Arun
25750 Points
4 years ago
acid sensitive groups are those like which can be attacked by an acid (ex. -OH, alkenes, alkynes etc) ie in short they are basic in nature. so they undergo clemmensen"s reduction (reduction in acidic medium).... base sensitive groups are acidic in nature (ex. -X, -COOH, -COOX etc). so They undergo wolff kishner reduction (reduction in basic medium)..... i 
Vikas TU
14149 Points
4 years ago

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