Identify the reaction in which the carbonyl group of aldehydes and ketones is reduced to a methylene group upon treatment with zinc-amalgam and concentrated hydrochloric acid.
- AWolff-Kishner reduction.
- BStephen reaction.
- CClemmensen reduction.
- DEtard reaction.
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