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Ethyl butanoate is reduced to butan-1-ol (plus ethanol) by

  1. A in water
  2. Bsodium metal in ethanol (Bouveault-Blanc reduction)
  3. C/Pd-C at 1 atm
  4. DZn-Hg/HCl

Answer: B

Sodium in ethanol reduces esters to primary alcohols (Bouveault-Blanc). and mild catalytic hydrogenation leave esters unchanged and Clemmensen reduction acts on aldehydes and ketones.
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