- #1
chad kimsey
- 9
- 3
I've been thumbing back through my organic synthesis book to try and remember how to reduce a carboxylic functional group. I know how to do partial reduction to primary alcohols, or create aldehydes and or acyl halides. But isn't there a way to completely reduce it all the way to a hydrocarbon without too much trouble and nasty chemicals or expensive PtO catalysts? Haven't found a way yet...just wondering if anyone out there knew how to do this I'm trying to prep an organic species for polymerization, but the acidic group is a reactive site and I do not want the other monomers to bond there so I need to get rid of it completely