Reduction of an Amide

[hrndawg]

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When you use LiAlH4 to reduce an amide, do you just reduce the ketone into an alcohol, or completely remove the Oxygen from the molecule?

 

[Saber tooth]

it gets ride of the ketone and adds two H to the carbon with the c=o

Which make the amide into an amine

 

[IsRaEl21]

Saber tooth is right it will be reduced to amine.

 

[jay47]

Exactly correct....