Re: TOJC reduction ?

beardra@plu.edu
Sun, 08 Dec 1996 23:35:18 -0800 (PST)

>From all the examples and naming of alcohols in the text, whenever a
hydroxl group is attached at the first carbon of a compound it is not
assigned a number...

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996 farrisrw@plu.edu wrote:

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> When assigning numbers to an alcohol, the alcohol is assigned the lowest
> number possible, therefore when the number of the alcohol is not given it
> is understood that the alcohol is located on the 1st carbon
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