Formation of Alcohols

[SKation]

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Hello all,

I was looking at the formation of alcohols in the EK orgo book and I saw that when using hydrides to react with carbonyls that esters and acetone were less reactive than aldehydes and ketones, which I understand why however if we were to decide between acetone and ester how would we do that?

Thanks!!

 

[QofQuimica]

If you understand why ketones are more reactive to nucleophilic attack than esters, then you should understand why acetone (a ketone) would be more reactive than an ester.