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Clemmensen reduction
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Etymology
Named after Erik Christian Clemmensen, the chemist who discovered this reaction.
Noun
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(chemistry) An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.
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