Problem: Aldehydes can be reduced to primary alcohols by the strong reducing agent sodium borohydride, NaBH_4 (s). Draw the aldehyde, including all hydrogen atoms, you would use to produce each of the following primary alcohols: (a) 1-propanol (b) 2-methyl-1-propanol (c) 2, 2-dimethyl-1-butanol
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Aldehydes can be reduced to primary alcohols by the strong reducing agent sodium borohydride, NaBH_4 (s). Draw the aldehyde, including all hydrogen atoms, you would use to produce each of the following primary alcohols: (a) 1-propanol (b) 2-methyl-1-propanol (c) 2, 2-dimethyl-1-butanol
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