what is the mechanism of h2o coming out in canizaro reaction
rishabh , 11 Years ago
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rishabh
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Vikash Kumar
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it is a general cannizzaro reaction and you can see in the second figure of the first reaction the OH- of the base extracts the H+ from the OH group which was addd in the first figure. thus H2O comes out of the cannizzaro reaction.