In chemistry, a reducing agent (also known as a reductant, reducer, or electron donor) is a chemical species that "donates" an electron to an electron...

reduce other substances (cause them to gain electrons) are said to be reductive or reducing and are known as reducing agents, reductants, or reducers...

A reducing sugar is any sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent. In an alkaline solution, a reducing sugar forms some aldehyde or ketone, which...

that gains or "accepts"/"receives" an electron from a reducing agent (called the reductant, reducer, or electron donor). In other words, an oxidizer is...

be reduced. In industrial processes, the reduction of metal oxides is often effected by a carbothermic reaction, using carbon as a reducing agent. Carbon...

elevated temperatures. The resulting black powder material is an effective reducing agent and safe to handle as opposed to the pure metal. The material can also...

they increase the pipeline capacity by reducing turbulency and increasing laminar flow. Drag reducing agents can be broadly classified under the following...

carbonyl such as an aldehyde or ketone and an amine in the presence of a reducing agent. The reaction conditions are neutral or weakly acidic. The nucleophilic...

"Compatibility Reagent" aka a Reducing Agent Compatibility Agent (RACA). Although this allows greater compatibility with reducing agents, the assay has a different...

reducing atmosphere composed of a mixed atmosphere of methane, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. Some hypotheses for the origin of life invoke a reducing...

compounds can be both reducing or oxidizing agents. Hydrogen gas is a reducing agent when it reacts with non-metals and an oxidizing agent when it reacts with...

oxidizing agent, accepting electrons from other molecules and becoming reduced; with H+, this reaction forms NADH, which can be used as a reducing agent to donate...

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy...

a water solution containing nickel salt and a phosphorus-containing reducing agent, usually a hypophosphite salt. It is the most common version of electroless...

syntheses instead use related epoxides and hydrogen sulfide. DTT is a reducing agent; once oxidized, it forms a stable six-membered ring with an internal...

iron and steel production, industrial fuel, cooking and heating fuel, reducing agent in chemical processes, and as a raw material in pyrotechnics. It is...

uses either ammonium formate or formamide as the nitrogen donor and reducing agent. It requires high temperatures, usually between 120 and 130 °C; for...

acid adds to alkenes to give alkyl iodides. It can also be used as a reducing agent, for example in the reduction of aromatic nitro compounds to anilines...

1021/ic50215a060. Connelly, Neil; Geiger, William (March 28, 1996). "Chemical Redox Agents for Organometallic Chemistry". Chemical Reviews. 96 (2): 877–910. doi:10...

(ΔHBE = 436 kJ/mol) means that the hydride ion would also be a strong reducing agent H 2 + 2 e − ↽ − − ⇀ 2 H − {\displaystyle {\ce {H2 + 2e- <=> 2H-}}}  E⊖...

In metallurgy, a flux is a chemical reducing agent, flowing agent, or purifying agent. Fluxes may have more than one function at a time. They are used...

silver ion complex, usually AgNO3 or AgClO4, is reduced to colloidal Ag in the presence of a reducing agent. When the concentration increases enough, dissolved...

classes of organic compounds into reduced products through the action of samarium(II) iodide, a mild one-electron reducing agent. In 1979, Henri Kagan observed...

Diisobutylaluminium hydride (DIBALH, DIBAL, DIBAL-H or DIBAH) is a reducing agent with the formula (i-Bu2AlH)2, where i-Bu represents isobutyl (-CH2CH(CH3)2)...

agent and also as a metals precipitant; in chemical photography for toning black and white photographs; in the textile industry as a bleaching agent,...

trade name Red-Al refers to its being a reducing aluminium compound. It is used predominantly as a reducing agent in organic synthesis. The compound features...

deposition is the process by which metal cation is reduced to elemental metal with a powerful reducing agent. A typical electroless deposition bath consists...

the formula Na[(CH3COO)3BH]. Like other borohydrides, it is used as a reducing agent in organic synthesis. This colourless salt is prepared by protonolysis...

double bond, is an important way to prepare alcohols. Stoichiometric reducing agents to accomplish this task include lithium aluminium hydride, sodium borohydride...

most bleaches are oxidizing agents (chemicals that can remove electrons from other molecules), some are reducing agents (that donate electrons). Chlorine...