[Teunos]

Hello,

I'm currently on an assignment about synthesizing a molecule. In this reaction, a carbon atom, which is bonded to R, is furthermore consisting of an hydrogen atom and a double bonded oxygen. In the product of the reaction, the C=O binding is gone, leaving only R-H.

My question is, how could one 'substitute' the H-C-OH with only an hydrogen atom?

Thanks in advance!

Teunos

[wildfyr]

Would you say that you are converting an aldehyde to an alkane?

[rolnor]

Wolff-Kishner? Or make a dithioacetal and desulphurize with Raney-Ni.

[sjb]

Do you mean RCHO to RCH₃ or to RH?