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carboxylic acid reduction

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Anyone knows method of reducing carboxylic acid to alcohol that doesn't include LiAlH4?

what acid is it?

 

and wouldn`t sodium borohydride work?

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sodium boro hydride isn't enough reactive except if i would change OH group of carboxylic group to H.

Convert it to an ester first and NaBH4 will work

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