Jump to content

Barton-McCombie deoxygenation

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Named after Derek Barton and Stuart W. McCombie.

Noun

[edit]

Barton-McCombie deoxygenation (countable and uncountable, plural Barton-McCombie deoxygenations)

  1. (chemistry) An organic reaction in which a hydroxy functional group in an organic compound is replaced by a hydrogen to give an alkyl group.

Further reading

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Barton-McCombie_deoxygenation&oldid=82056858"