above conversion can be achieved by ...........................

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Pritish Chakraborty ·

Wolf Kishner reduction is in basic medium while Clemmenson reduction is in acidic medium. So (a)?

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govind ·

This is just a modified version of previous IIT question...in this case Acid will harm epoxy ring...
So ans shud be Wolf-Kishner

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Tapas Gandhi ·

a)

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Asish Mahapatra ·

epoxides also undergo cleavage under basic medium also naa (OH- is present in Wolf Kishner) ?

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rocky ·

i think asish is right..........as answer given is none of these.........my doubt--why mozingo method not applicable

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Manmay kumar Mohanty ·

ya my bad epoxide cleavage can be both acid and base catalyse

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