The presence of carvone and its effect on the scent of spearmint leaves and caraway seeds is commonly used in organic chemistry textbooks to demonstrate the impact of chirality. Although carvone is the major component in both caraway and spearmint extracts, each source of extraction produces a different enantiomer of carvone. Spearmint extract is known to contain (R)-carvone, which is responsible for the minty odor, while caraway extract contains (S)-carvone, accountable for caraway's earthy musk (Figure ). Consequentially, the extraction of spearmint leaves and caraway seeds is commonplace in undergraduate labs to demonstrate natural product extraction stereochemistry. The reduction of aldehydes and ketones to produce alcohols and ketones is a fundamental organic synthetic methodology that is also present in various forms in most undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory curricula. Reduction often involves using a hydride reagent, typically boranes and aluminum hydrides, the most common being sodium borohydride and lithium aluminum hydride. Sodium borohydride is remarkably versatile because it can be weighed in air and used in aqueous solutions, making it the preferred reagent for reduction experiments in undergraduate labs. The reduction of aldehydes and symmetric ketones produces primary alcohols and symmetric secondary alcohols, respectively, whiles the reduction of non-symmetric ketones under suitable reaction conditions produces optically active secondary alcohols.