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Bouveault-Blanc reduction

noun Bou·veault-Blanc reduction \ ¦büˌvō¦bläⁿ- \

Definition of Bouveault-Blanc reduction

: a method for the preparation of alcohols from esters and of amines from oximes or nitriles by reduction with metallic sodium in solution in an alcohol (as ethyl alcohol)

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Origin and Etymology of bouveault-blanc reduction

after Louis Bouveault †1909 and Gustave Blanc fl1903 French chemists

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