释义 |
bou·veault-blanc reduction \|büˌvō|bläⁿ-\ noun Usage: capitalized both Bs Etymology: after Louis Bouveault died 1909 and Gustave Blanc fl1903 French chemists : a method for the preparation of alcohols from esters and of amines from oximes or nitriles by reduction with metallic sodium in solution in an alcohol (as ethyl alcohol) |