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clemmensen reduction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English

Syllables
clem-mensen re-duc-tion
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Named after Erik Christian Clemmensen, the chemist who discovered this reaction.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Clemmensen reductions (plural)

Questions

What does clemmensen reduction mean?
An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.
Where does clemmensen reduction come from?
Named after Erik Christian Clemmensen, the chemist who discovered this reaction.

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