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Okay, this problem is asking us to predict the product of this reaction.
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So as we can see here, we have this ketone, and that is a ketone because we have this carbonyl structure, and on either side of that carbonyl, we have two carbons.
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So that is my ketone, and that is going to be reacting with my lithium aluminum hydride.
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So this is kind of a memorization problem, because it might not be as intuitive of what lithium aluminum hydride does to ketones.
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But one way that we can kind of remember this is that lithium aluminum hydride, again, is a reducing agent.
00:27
It has a lot of hydrogens, right? so a reducing agent reduces compounds.
00:31
And for a compound to be reduced, that means that we're going to add carbon hydrogen bonds.
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Okay, so if i'm going to add carbon hydrogen bonds, that means that i have a ketone, which again has this carbon oxygen bond.
00:43
And again, reducing agents, reduce compounds.
00:46
That means that we're going to add carbon hydrogen bonds or get rid of carbon oxygen bonds...