Question

How do you reduce aromatic rings?

Answer 1

With difficulty......

Explanation:

The Birch reduction can convert SOME aromatic compounds to 1,4-cyclohexadienes by the action of alkali metals in the presence of some proton source (typically ethanol, or tert-butanol).

Of course, a brute force approach could be employed with catalytic hydrogenation....Such reduction requires forcing conditions, and would be quite indiscriminate.