Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• explain why phenols are more acidic than alcohols
• predict the products of oxidation of an alcohol and give the reagents required to perform this reaction
• predict the products of oxidation of a thiol and reduction of a disulfide

• Sections 19.1 - 19.5 (in )

Organic reduction and elimination Contributed by Adam Bridgeman