Talk:Wolff–Kishner reduction

There is an error in the reaction mechanism.

I'm not going to change it because changing it would actually make wiki better then the pile of sh!t that it is.

This article, like the hundred's I've seen before it is has errors.

Of course the other idiot mods of wiki don't know jack about organic chemistry, but will be quick to revert "vandalism" even when they have no idea if the deletion is justified or not. In short, Wiki is run by a bunch of high schoolers who stick their heads up jimmy wales' ass. Because these idi0ts comfort and support each other's idiocy, they allow crap to seep into wiki. By the nature of an id0tic public, yet relying on the id0tic public for information, wikipedia is fundamentally flawed and to put bluntly, sh!tty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.166.18.115 (talk) 01:34, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Language!

Could someone please translate or remove (probably not very encyclopaedic):

The Huang-Minlon variant was discovered by chance when a stopper unnoticed from the set for the reduction flew glass bulb. The chemist (Huang-or Minlon?), Which wanted to carry out the reaction was absent, and his colleague, the statement from time to nachzuschauen, but otherwise nothing to change - so he sat next to the apparatus is not re-stopper. Then the evaporated as a solvent used water, and the return of the chemist was the contents of the flask festgeworden. Although they initially assumed that the reaction product because of the heat decomposed, and thus would be useless, it was refurbished. To the great surprise was not only the desired product, the reaction also advanced, but it was also the abnormally high yield. In examining how this positive result was completed, Huang and Minlon discovered that temperatures> 100 ° C for the reaction favourable. (by: Fieser and Fieser).

Nevermind, took it out as probably copyrighted if in Feiser&Feiser. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.71.76 (talk) 12:28, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

aldehydes vs. ketones

"This reaction is also used to distinguish between aldehydes and ketones." How? The product - an alkane - is the same in both cases. 69.72.27.133 (talk) 04:57, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

flawed mechanism

The reaction mechanism for the grob rearrangement formation of limonene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolff-K_rearrangement.png) is flawed, the trans-π-bromocamphor molecule misses 2 methyl groups.