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Lee Ram.

Ascorbic acid or sodium ascorbate in CUAAC click chemistry?

I find people use sodium ascorbate as reducing agent in CUAAC reaction,Why they don't use ascorbic acid,Because these two reagent has the same function,and sodium ascorbate is just ascorbic acid in the form of salt.I only have ascorbic acid,so I don't know whether it can also work