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Cannizzaro reaction

noun

Etymology

Named after Italian chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro (1826–1910), who discovered it.

Definitions

  1. The disproportionation of an aldehyde into an alcohol and a carboxylic acid.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Cannizzaro reaction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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