00:01
So here we have the reaction of benzophenone here, seeing us this ketone, with sodium borohydride, and we probably need some water, to reduce that carbonyl functionality into an alcohol, and to make the diphenyl methanol.
00:30
Okay, so then just to show mechanism for this reaction, okay, we have our sodium borohydride acting, and to make the diphenyl methanol.
00:37
Okay, so then just to show mechanism for this reaction, okay, we have our strutium borohydride, acting, acting, as a source, a hydride source, which is a nucleophile.
00:42
So yes, this boron, this boride is a nucleophile.
00:48
And we'll attack the electrophilic site of the carbonyl.
00:56
Okay, and then we get a pushing up of the electrons onto this oxygen.
01:02
Okay, and what that basically then creates is this kind of a molecule here.
01:14
Here, we have an o minus and because this was a hydride attack, what was really doing this attack was a hydrogen form of an anion.
01:28
Okay, so we have this intermediate here...