At the end of this activity, students should be able to define a nucleophilic addition reaction and discuss its mechanism, write equations for the addition reactions of hydrogen cyanide and hydrogensulphite, and name the products, write equations for the reduction of aldehydes and ketones with various reducing agents and name the products of these reactions, explain the differences between the behaviour of aldehydes and ketones during oxidation and describe the practical importance of these reactions, write equations for the oxidation of aldehydes and ketones using known oxidising agents and define Tollens', Fehling’s and Brady's reagents and name the reactions used for identification of carbonyl compounds.

Originally released by Learnetic, 2016.