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Tishchenko reaction
The Tishchenko reaction is an organic chemical reaction that involves disproportionation of an aldehyde lacking a hydrogen atom in the alpha position in the presence of an alkoxide.See:
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- В. Е. Тищенко and Г. Н. Григорьева (V. E. Tishchenko and G. N. Grigor'eva) (1906) "О действии амальгамы магния на изомасляного альдегида" (On the effect of magnesium amalgam on isobutyric aldehyde), Журнал Русского Физико-Химического Общества (Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society), 38 : 540–547.
- М. П. Воронҝова and В. Е. Тищенко (M. P. Voronkova and V. E. Tishchenko) (1906) "О действии амальгамы магния на уксусный альдегид" (On the effect of magnesium amalgam on acetic aldehyde), Журнал Русского Физико-Химического Общества (Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society), 38 : 547–550. The reaction product is an ester. Catalysts are aluminium alkoxides or sodium alkoxides. It is named after the Russian organic chemist Vyacheslav Evgen'evich Tishchenko (Вячеслав Евгеньевич Тищенко, 1861–1941).
In the related Cannizzaro reaction the base is sodium hydroxide and then the oxidation product is a carboxylic acid and the reduction product is an alcohol.