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Q. What happens when a carboxylic acid is treated with lithium aluminium hydride?

Aldehydes Ketones and Carboxylic Acids

Solution:

$RCOOH +4 H \xrightarrow{ LiAlH _{4}} RCH _{2} OH + H _{2} O$