What happens when ethyl methyl ketone is treated with sodium amalgam and water
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Sodium amalgam and water is a reducing agent. When ketone is treated with this reducing agent, it get reduced to its secondary alcohol.
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. Diethyl malonate, CH2(CO2C2H5)2, also called malonic ester, is prepared by the reaction of ethyl alcohol with cyanoacetic acid.
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