explain cannizzaro reaction
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The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction that involves the base-induced disproportionation of two molecules of a non-enolizable aldehyde to give a primary alcohol and a carboxylic acid.
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aldehydes which do not have an alpha carbon like formaldehyde (HCHO) in presence of base (like KOH)
undergo both oxidation to ( HCOOk) and reduction
to (ch3oh)
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