Answer to Question #186715 in Organic Chemistry for Sam

Question

Addition reactions should be explained with aldehydes and ketones or with carboxylic acids and not with an alkene

Answer 1

Aldehydes and ketones undergo a variety of reactions that lead to many different products. The most common reactions are nucleophilic addition reactions, which lead to the formation of alcohols, alkenes, diols, cyanohydrins (RCH(OH)C&tbond;N), and imines R 2C&dbond;NR)