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ChemistryOrganic Oxidation & Reduction ReactionsJEE Main

The appropriate reagent for converting a ring-bound acetyl group (–COCH₃) to an ethyl group (–CH₂CH₃), while leaving a free ring hydroxyl group unaffected, is

Answer: (B)

Solution

Wolff–Kishner reduction (hydrazine followed by base) fully reduces a ketone's carbonyl to a methylene group under basic conditions, compatible with a free hydroxyl group elsewhere in the

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