What are acid and base sensitive groups? Kindly give some examples...
Pranjal K , 12 Years ago
Grade upto college level
2 Answers
Varun Acharya
Last Activity: 12 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
Last Activity: 11 Years ago
did you understand????? plz reply if you did :)
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