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Aldehydes and ketones undergo several characteristic reactions: 1) They oxidize to carboxylic acids and reduce to alcohols. Ketones oxidize only under vigorous conditions via enolization. 2) They undergo nucleophilic addition reactions with reagents like cyanide, derivatives of ammonia, alcohols and Grignard reagents to form products like cyanohydrins, oximes, acetals, and alcohols. 3) Aldehydes react via Cannizzaro reaction under basic conditions, self-oxidizing to carboxylic acids and self-reducing to

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Prashant Nalinde

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