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Give the conversion of carboxylic acids into alcohols.

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In presence of strong reducing agent like `LiAlH_(4)` carboxylic acids reduced to primary alcohols.
`R-COOH underset(H_(2)O)overset(LiAlH_(4))to R-CH_(2)OH`
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