A ketone or an aldehyde is reacted with hydrazine in Wolff-Kishner reduction. The reaction begins with nucleophilic attack of hydrazine upon the carbonyl carbon. This is one of the more challenging mechanisms. Conceptual framing is helpful to learning. Wolff-Kishner belongs to the group of reactions that are possible between ketones/aldehydes and amines and amine derivatives. In these reactions, if the nucleophile is a primary amine, having two hydrogens to lose, reaction with a ketone or an aldehyde will produce an imine form, in which the carbon originally double bonded to oxygen will be double bonded to nitrogen. If the amine is secondary, the product is an enamine, in which the carbon-nitrogen bond is single, but the carbon is double bonded. In Wolff-Kishner, the tetrahedral intermediate formed by the nucleophilic attack, resolves itself by losing the original carbonyl oxygen as hydroxide, forming eventually a hydrazone, the structure of which is of the imine type (not enamine). Deprotonating with a strong base puts electrons on the move within the hydrazone in a manner similar to an elimination mechanism, except that here we have electrons moving into nitrogen-nitrogen bonds, not carbon-carbon, with resonance stability also. Two deprotonations occur moving two electron pairs between the nitrogens, displacing electrons onto the original carbonyl carbon, eventually turning the alkyl portion of the molecule into an E2 style leaving group, which, after departing, is protonated to form the alkane product.
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it is type of nuclear reaction because nucleus is involve in this type of reaction while in ordinary chemical reaction only valance electron of atoms involve
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Noise reduction.
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Reduction Is Gain of electrons
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They show the oxidation an reduction halves of a reaction
half reaction
An oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction is a type of chemical reaction that involves a transfer of electrons between two species. An oxidation-reduction reaction is any chemical reaction in which the oxidation number of a molecule, atom, or ion changes by gaining or losing an electron
This is a reduction reaction.
A reduction reaction
an oxidation and reduction reaction.
When a substance gains an electron or electrons, this is known as "reduction". For every reduction reaction, there is also an oxidation reaction. So, whatever substance "gave" the electrons, underwent oxidation.
Burning wood in air/oxygen is a combustion reaction, a type of oxidation-reduction reaction.
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