Many recipes call for lemon juice to be squirted on fish to mitigate its unpleasant odor.
Many recipes call for lemon juice to be squirted on fish to mitigate its unpleasant odor. In this example, the citric acid of lemon juice reacts with the amines in fish – often trimethylamine – to create salt complexes. Draw the arrow pushing mechanism and product for this reaction. Why does this trick eliminate the […]