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What are acid and base sensitive groups? Kindly give some examples...

What are acid and base sensitive groups? Kindly give some examples...

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Varun Acharya
39 Points
10 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 think this is it... :)
Varun Acharya
39 Points
10 years ago
did you understand????? plz reply if you did :)

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