Name reaction tragetasche

The Wolff-Kishner reduction is an organic reaction used to convert an aldehyde or ketone to an alkane using hydrazine, base, and thermal conditions. The method originally involved heating the hydrazine with sodium ethoxide in a sealed vessel at about 180 C. It’s named after the German chemist Luwig Wolff and the Russian chemist N.M. Kishner (1912).