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Show how you would accomplish the following syntheses. You may use whatever additional reagents you need. (a) <

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Okay. Hi everyone. So for this question we must complete the following chemical equation with suitable chemical re agents and solvents. So let's first check out what's going on here. Right? So our starting material has both a ketone and and all the hide and our product has the same ketone. But this all the hide has been reduced to a primary alcohol. Let me just repeat that we went from at all to hide in the beginning to a primary alcohol. Yet the ketones stayed the same. So if the ketones stayed the same, then that means we need a re agent that is selective towards all the hides and not ketones. Now, we have to be careful in this case because if we were to use something like sodium bora hydride, sodium bora hydrate is an incredibly strong reducing agent. So it would reduce both the ketone and the older hide, which is not what we have here. So we don't want to use that instead recall that we have a re agent at our disposal known as sodium try acid Toxie borrow hydride. Now that name's a lot. So let me just draw the structure in the meantime. And this reducing agent is a lot milder than sodium bora hydrate because notice how it only has one hydrogen as opposed to the four that sodium bora hydrate has. So recall also that um the sodium try toxic Borough hydride is selective towards all the heights. It preferentially reduces all the hides and not ketones. So this is exactly our answer. Right? When we want to reduce an alga hide into an alcohol and leave the ketone alone, we should probably react it with this sodium trista Toxie borough hydrate. Yeah. So that's our re agent and our preferential solvent. The best solvent in this case would be acetic acid. So that is going to be our final answer. Just want to move this so that it looks better. And this is our final answer. When you react and all the hide with sodium tries to toxic borrow hydride in the presence of acetic acid, it gets reduced into a primary alcohol and it does not react with ketones. So thanks for watching. And I hope this was helpful.

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