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reducing a carboxylic acid directly forms an aldehyde, but further reduction forms a primary alcohol

reducing a ketone forms a secondary alcohol

oxidation reverses these processes

primary alcohol -> aldehyde -> carboxylic acid

secondary alcohol -> ketone

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