Clemmensen reduction (English, noun)
expansion: Clemmensen reduction (countable and uncountable, plural Clemmensen reductions)
Senses:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone carbonyl group is reduced to a methylene with zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: Clemmensen reductions
tags: plural