Exhibit 29-2 Use the Data Below to Answer the Following Question(s)

question 17

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 29-2
Use the data below to answer the following question(s) :
Under certain metabolic conditions associated with a high rate of fatty acid oxidation,the liver produces considerable quantities of acetoacetate and β-hydroxybutyrate.Acetoacetate continually undergoes spontaneous decarboxylation to yield acetone.The interrelationship of these compounds is shown below.
-Refer to Exhibit 29-2.The reduction of acetoacetate to β-hydroxybutyrate is an example of a:

• A)nucleophilic substitution reaction.
• B)nucleophilic acyl substitution reaction.
• C)nucleophilic addition reaction.
• D)nucleophilic exchange reaction.

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