How alkanes can be prepared by aldehydes and ketones? [closed]








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Preparation of alkanes by aldehydes and ketones, its chemical reaction and mechanism.




You want to deoxygenate the carbonyls under conditions where you do not get condensation reactions. Do you want to pull the oxygen or dimerize to the olefins then hydrogenate?


Wolff-Kishner or Clemmensen reductions, thioacetal then Raney nickel and hydrogen. McMurry reaction for dimerization. Given polymethylhydrosiloxane,


Synlett 276 (2009)   

Org. Lett. 13, 584 (2011)


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