Question

There is a structure of a three-membered carbon ring with an –O atom double-bonded to the first carbon.

Draw the condensed structural or line-angle formula for the alcohol produced when hydrogen and a nickel catalyst reduce each of the following.

Answer 1

The compound in the picture is called cyclopropanone and it’s a ketone, a reduction of a ketone gives you a secondary alcohol - so the product in this case is cyclopropanol.