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...

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

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

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

(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⊖...

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)...

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

alloy (alloy of aluminium (~45%), copper (~50%) and zinc (~5%)) is a reducing agent that was commonly used in wet analytical chemistry to produce in situ...

and forms a dark blue solution in THF. It is a strong one-electron reducing agent that is used in organic synthesis. In solid samarium(II) iodide, the...

nucleic acid syntheses, which require NADPH as a reducing agent ('hydrogen source'). NADPH is the reduced form, whereas NADP+ is the oxidized form. NADP+...

which is a white solid that dissolves well in water. The compound is a reducing agent and a ligand, and these properties underpin its applications. Sodium...

of iodine with a reducing agent to produce iodide using a starch indicator to help detect the endpoint. Iodine (I2) can be reduced to iodide (I−) by...