Sodium triacetoxyborohydride , is a mild reducing agent that reduces aldehydes much more quickly than ketones. It can be used to reduce aldehydes in the presence of ketones, such as in the following reaction:
(a) Draw a complete Lewis structure for sodium triacetoxyborohydride.
(b) Propose a mechanism for the reduction of an aldehyde by sodium triacetoxyborohydride.
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