List of organic reactions
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
This page aims to list well-known reactions and reagents in organic chemistry. It is organized in alphabetical order. You may also find it useful to browse Category:Organic reactions.
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Contents
Contents
A
A
- Abramovitch-Shapiro tryptamine synthesis
- Acetoacetic ester condensation
- Achmatowicz reaction
- Acyloin condensation
- Adams catalyst
- Adkins catalyst
- Adkins-Peterson reaction
- Akabori amino acid reaction
- Alder ene reaction
- Alder-Stein rules
- Aldol addition
- Aldol condensation
- Algar-Flynn-Oyamada reaction
- Allan-Robinson reaction
- Allylic rearrangement
- Amadori rearrangement
- Andrussov oxidation
- Appel reaction
- Arbuzov reaction, Arbusow reaction
- Arens-van Dorp synthesis, Isler modification
- Arndt-Eistert synthesis
- Auwers synthesis
- Azo coupling
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B
B
- Baeyer-Drewson indigo synthesis
- Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
- Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement
- Bakeland process (Bakelite)
- Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement
- Baker-Venkataraman transformation
- Bally-Scholl synthesis
- Balz-Schiemann reaction
- Bamberger rearrangement
- Bamberger triazine synthesis
- Bamford-Stevens reaction
- Barbier-Wieland degradation
- Bardhan-Senguph phenanthrene synthesis
- Bartoli indole synthesis
- Bartoli reaction
- Barton reaction
- Barton-McCombie reaction, Barton deoxygenation
- Baudisch reaction
- Bayer test
- Baylis-Hilman reaction
- Bechamp reaction
- Beckmann fragmentation
- Beckmann rearrangement
- Bellus-Claisen rearrangement
- Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
- Benary reaction
- Benzidine rearrangement
- Benzilic acid rearrangement
- Benzoin condensation
- Bergman cyclization
- Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis
- Bergmann degradation
- Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method
- Bernthsen acridine synthesis
- Bestmann’s reagent
- Betti reaction
- Biginelli pyrimidine synthesis
- Biginelli reaction
- Birch reduction
- Bischler-Möhlau indole synthesis
- Bischler-Napieralski reaction
- Blaise ketone synthesis
- Blaise reaction
- Blanc reaction
- Blanc chloromethylation
- Bodroux reaction
- Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis
- Bogert-Cook synthesis
- Bohn-Schmidt reaction
- Boord olefin synthesis
- Borodin reaction
- Borsche-Drechsel cyclization
- Bosch-Meiser urea process
- Bouveault aldehyde synthesis
- Bouveault-Blanc reduction
- Boyland-Sims oxidation
- Boyer Reaction
- Bredt’s rule
- Brown hydroboration
- Bucherer carbazole synthesis
- Bucherer reaction
- Bucherer-Bergs reaction
- Buchner ring enlargement
- Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck reaction
- Buchwald-Hartwig amination
- Bunnett reaction
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C
C
- Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling
- Camps quinoline synthesis
- Cannizzaro reaction
- Carroll reaction
- Catalytic reforming
- CBS reduction
- Chan-Lam coupling
- Chapman rearrangement
- Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
- Chichibabin reaction
- Chugaev elimination
- Ciamician-Dennstedt rearrangement
- Claisen condensation
- Claisen rearrangement
- Claisen-Schmidt condensation
- Clemmensen reduction
- Collins-Reagent
- Combes quinoline synthesis
- Conia reaction
- Conrad-Limpach synthesis
- Corey-Gilman-Ganem oxidation
- Cook-Heilbron thiazole synthesis
- Cope elimination
- Cope rearrangement
- Corey reagent
- Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
- Corey-Fuchs reaction
- Corey-Kim oxidation
- Corey-Posner, Whitesides-House reaction
- Corey-Winter olefin synthesis
- Corey-Winter reaction
- Coupling reaction
- Craig method
- Cram’s rule of asymmetric induction
- Creighton process
- Criegee reaction
- Criegee rearrangement
- Cross metathesis
- Crum Brown-Gibson rule
- Curtius degradation
- Curtius rearrangement, Curtius reaction
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D
D
- Dakin reaction
- Dakin-West reaction
- Darapsky degradation
- Darzens condensation, Darzens-Claisen reaction, Glycidic ester condensation
- Darzens synthesis of unsaturated ketones
- Darzens tetralin synthesis
- Delepine reaction
- Demjanov rearrangement
- Demjanow desamination
- Dess-Martin oxidation
- Diazotisation
- DIBAL-H selective reduction
- Dieckmann condensation
- Dieckmann reaction
- Diels-Alder reaction
- Diels Reese reaction
- Dienol benzene rearrangement
- Dienone phenol rearrangement
- Dimroth rearrangement
- Di-pi-methane rearrangement
- Directed ortho metalation
- Doebner modification
- Doebner reaction
- Doebner-Miller reaction, Beyer method for quinolines
- Doering-LaFlamme carbon chain extension
- Dötz reaction
- Dowd-Beckwith ring expansion reaction
- Duff reaction
- Dutt-Wormall reaction
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E
E
- E1cB elimination reaction
- Eder reaction
- Edman degradation
- Eglinton reaction
- Ehrlich-Sachs reaction
- Einhorn variant
- Einhorn-Brunner reaction
- Elbs persulfate oxidation
- Elbs reaction
- Elimination reaction
- Emde degradation
- Emmert reaction
- Ene reaction
- Epoxidation
- Erlenmeyer synthesis, Azlactone synthesis
- Erlenmeyer-Plöchl azlactone and amino acid synthesis
- Eschenmoser fragmentation
- Eschweiler-Clarke reaction
- Ester pyrolysis
- Étard reaction
- Evans aldol
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F
F
- Favorskii reaction
- Favorskii rearrangement
- Favorskii-Babayan synthesis
- Feist-Benary synthesis
- Fenton reaction
- Ferrario reaction
- Ferrier rearrangement
- Finkelstein reaction
- Fischer indole synthesis
- Fischer oxazole synthesis
- Fischer peptide synthesis
- Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction
- Fischer glycosidation
- Fischer-Hepp rearrangement
- Fischer-Speier esterification
- Fischer Tropsch synthesis
- Fleming-Tamao oxidation
- Flood reaction
- Forster reaction
- Forster-Decker method
- Franchimont reaction
- Frankland synthesis
- Frankland-Duppa reaction
- Freund reaction
- Friedel-Crafts Acylation
- Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
- Friedländer synthesis
- Fries rearrangement
- Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement
- Fujimoto-Belleau reaction
- Fukuyama coupling
- Fukuyama indole synthesis
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G
G
- Gabriel ethylenimine method
- Gabriel synthesis
- Gabriel-Colman rearrangement, Gabriel isoquinoline synthesis
- Gallagher-Hollander degradation
- Gassman indole synthesis
- Gastaldi synthesis
- Gattermann aldehyde synthesis
- Gattermann Koch reaction
- Gattermann reaction
- Gewald reaction
- Gibbs phthalic anhydride process
- Gilman reagent
- Glaser coupling
- Glycol cleavage
- Gogte synthesis
- Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
- Gomberg-Bachmann-Hey reaction
- Gomberg-Free radical reaction
- Gould-Jacobs reaction
- Graebe-Ullmann synthesis
- Grignard degradation
- Grignard reaction
- Grob fragmentation
- Grubbs’ catalyst in Olefin metathesis
- Grundmann aldehyde synthesis
- Gryszkiewicz-Trochimowski and McCombie method
- Guareschi-Thorpe condensation
- Guerbet reaction
- Gutknecht pyrazine synthesis
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H
H
- Haller-Bauer reaction
- Haloform reaction
- Hammett equation
- Hammick reaction
- Hammond-Principle or Hammond postulate
- Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis
- Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis, Hantzsch pyridine synthesis
- Hantzsch Pyridine synthesis, Gattermann-Skita synthesis, Guareschi-Thorpe condensation, Knoevenagel-Fries modification
- Hantzsch-Collidin-synthesis
- Harber-Weiss reaction
- Harries Ozonide reaction
- Haworth Methylation
- Haworth Phenanthrene synthesis
- Haworth-reaction
- Hay coupling
- Hayashi rearrangement
- Heck reaction
- Helferich method
- Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
- Hemetsberger indole synthesis
- Hemetsberger-Knittel synthesis
- Henkel reaction, Raecke process, Henkel process
- Henry reaction, Kamlet reaction
- Herz reaction, Herz compounds
- Herzig-Meyer alkimide group determination
- Heumann indigo synthesis
- Hinsberg indole synthesis
- Hinsberg reaction
- Hinsberg separation
- Hinsberg sulfone synthesis
- Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis
- Hofmann degradation, Exhaustive methylation
- Hofmann Elimination
- Hofmann Isonitrile synthesis, Carbylamine reaction
- Hofmann produkt
- Hofmann rearrangement
- Hofmann-Löffler reaction, Löffler-Freytag reaction, Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag reaction
- Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
- Hofmann’s Rule
- Hofmann-Sand reaction
- Homo rearrangement of steroids
- Hooker reaction
- Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
- Hösch reaction
- Hosomi-Sakurai reaction
- Houben-Fischer synthesis
- Hunsdiecker reaction
- Hydroboration
- Hydrohalogenation
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J
J
- Jacobsen rearrangement
- Janovsky reaction
- Japp-Klingemann reaction
- Japp-Maitland condensation
- Johnson-Claisen rearrangement
- Jones oxidation
- Jordan-Ullmann-Goldberg synthesis
- Julia olefination
- Julia-Lythgoe olefination
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K
K
- Kabachnik-Fields reaction
- Kendall-Mattox reaction
- Kiliani-Fischer synthesis
- Kindler reaction
- Kishner cyclopropane synthesis
- Knoevenagel condensation
- Knoop-Oesterlin amino acid synthesis
- Knorr pyrazole synthesis
- Knorr pyrrole synthesis
- Knorr quinoline synthesis
- Koch-Haaf reaction
- Kochi reaction
- Koenigs-Knorr reaction
- Kolbe electrolysis
- Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
- Kondakov rule
- Kontanecki acylation
- Kornblum oxidation
- Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement
- Kowalski ester homologation
- Krafft degradation
- Krapcho decarboxylation
- Kröhnke aldehyde synthesis
- Kröhnke oxidation
- Kröhnke pyridine synthesis
- Kucherov reaction
- Kuhn-Winterstein reaction
- Kulinkovich reaction
- Kumada coupling
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L
L
- Larock indole synthesis
- Lebedev process
- Lehmstedt-Tanasescu reaction
- Leimgruber-Batcho indole synthesis
- Letts nitrile synthesis
- Leuckart reaction
- Leuckart thiophenol reaction
- Leuckart-Wallach reaction
- Leuckert amide synthesis
- Levinstein process
- Ley Oxidation
- Lieben iodoform reaction, Haloform reaction
- Lindlar catalyst
- Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation
- Lossen rearrangement
- Luche reduction
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M
M
- Madelung synthesis
- Malaprade reaction, Periodic acid oxidation
- Malonic ester synthesis
- Mannich reaction
- Markovnikov’s rule, Markownikoff rule, Markownikow rule
- Martinet dioxindole synthesis
- McDougall monoprotection
- McFadyen-Stevens reaction
- McMurry reaction
- Meerwein arylation
- Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
- Meisenheimer rearrangement
- Meissenheimer complex
- Menshutkin reaction
- Mentzer pyrone synthesis
- Metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement
- Mesylation
- Merckwald asymmetric synthesis
- Meyer and Hartmann reaction
- Meyer reaction
- Meyer synthesis
- Meyer-Schuster rearrangement
- Michael addition
- Michael addition, Michael system
- Michael condensation
- Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction
- Miescher degradation
- Mignonac reaction
- Milas hydroxylation of olefins
- Mitsunobu reaction
- Mukaiyama aldol addition
- Mukaiyama reaction
- Myers’ asymmetric alkylation
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N
N
- Nametkin rearrangement
- Nazarov cyclization reaction
- Neber rearrangement
- Nef reaction
- Negishi coupling
- Negishi-Zipper reaction
- Nenitzescu indole synthesis
- Nenitzescu reductive acylation
- Nicholas reaction
- Niementowski quinazoline synthesis
- Niementowski quinoline synthesis
- Nierenstein reaction
- Nitroaldol reaction
- Normant reagents
- Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation
- Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Nickel/Chromium Coupling reaction
- Nucleophilic acyl substitution
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O
O
- Ohira-Bestmann reaction
- Olefin metathesis
- Oppenauer oxidation
- Ostromyslenskii reaction, Ostromisslenskii reaction
- Oxidative decarboxylation
- Oxo synthesis
- Oxy-Cope rearrangement
- Oxymercuration
- Ozonolysis
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P
P
- Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis
- Paal-Knorr synthesis
- Paneth technique
- Paolini reaction
- Passerini reaction
- Paterno-Büchi reaction
- Pauson-Khand reaction
- Pechmann condensation
- Pechmann pyrazole synthesis
- Pellizzari reaction
- Pelouze synthesis
- Perkin alicyclic synthesis
- Perkin reaction
- Perkin rearrangement
- Perkow reaction
- Petasis reaction
- Petasis reagent
- Peterson olefination
- Peterson reaction
- Petrenko-Kritschenko piperidone synthesis
- Pfan-Plattner azulene synthesis
- Pfitzinger reaction
- Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
- Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis
- Pictet-Hubert reaction
- Pictet-Spengler tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis
- Pictet-Spengler reaction
- Piloty alloxazine synthesis
- Piloty-Robinson pyrrole synthesis
- Pinacol coupling reaction
- Pinacol rearrangement
- Pinner amidine synthesis
- Pinner method for ortho esters
- Pinner reaction
- Pinner triazine synthesis
- Piria reaction
- Pitzer strain
- Polonovski reaction
- Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction
- Ponzio reaction
- Prelog strain
- Prevost reaction
- Prileschajew reaction
- Prilezhaev reaction
- Prins reaction
- Prinzbach synthesis
- Pschorr reaction
- Pummerer rearrangement
- Purdie methylation, Irvine-Purdie methylation
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R
R
- Ramberg-Backlund reaction
- Raney-Nickel
- Rap-Stoermer condensation
- Raschig phenol process
- Rauhut-Currier reaction
- Reed reaction
- Reformatskii reaction
- Reilly-Hickinbottom rearrangement
- Reimer-Tiemann reaction
- Reissert indole synthesis
- Reissert reaction, Reissert compound
- Reppe synthesis
- Retropinacol rearrangement
- Reverdin reaction
- Riehm quinoline synthesis
- Riemschneider thiocarbamate synthesis
- Riley oxidations
- Ring closing metathesis
- Ring opening metathesis
- Ritter reaction
- Robinson annulation
- Robinson-Gabriel synthesis
- Robinson Schopf reaction
- Rosenmund reaction
- Rosenmund reduction
- Rosenmund-von Braun synthesis
- Rothemund reaction
- Rowe rearrangement
- Rupe reaction
- Rubottom oxidation
- Ruff-Fenton degradation
- Ruzicka large ring synthesis
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S
S
- Sakurai reaction
- Salol reaction
- Sandheimer
- Sandmeyer diphenylurea isatin synthesis
- Sandmeyer isonitrosoacetanilide isatin synthesis
- Sandmeyer reaction
- Sanger reagent
- Sarett oxidation
- Saytzeff rule, Saytzeff’s Rule
- Schiemann reaction
- Schlenk equilibrium
- Schlosser modification
- Schlosser variant
- Schlosser-Lochmann reaction
- Schmidlin ketene synthesis
- Schmidt degradation
- Schmidt reaction
- Scholl reaction
- Schorigin Shorygin reaction, Shorygin reaction, Wanklyn reaction
- Schotten-Baumann reaction
- Screttas-Yus reaction
- Semidine rearrangement
- Semmler-Wolff reaction
- Serini reaction
- Seyferth-Gilbert homologation
- Shapiro reaction
- Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
- Sharpless epoxidation
- Sharpless oxyamination or aminohydroxylation
- Simmons-Smith reaction
- Simonini reaction
- Simonis chromone cyclization
- Skraup chinolin synthesis
- Skraup reaction
- Smiles rearrangement
- SNAr nucleophilic aromatic substitution
- SN1
- SN2
- SNi
- Sommelet reaction
- Sonn-Müller method
- Sonogashira coupling
- Sørensen formol titration
- Staedel-Rugheimer pyrazine synthesis
- Staudinger reaction
- Stephen aldehyde synthesis
- Stetter reaction
- Stevens rearrangement
- Stieglitz rearrangement
- Stille coupling
- Stobbe condensation
- Stollé synthesis
- Stork acylation
- Stork enamine alkylation
- Strecker amino acid synthesis
- Strecker degradation
- Strecker sulfite alkylation
- Strecker synthesis
- Stuffer disulfone hydrolysis rule
- Suzuki coupling
- Swain equation
- Swarts reaction
- Swern oxidation
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T
T
- Tamao oxidation
- Tafel rearrangement
- Takai olefination
- Tebbe olefination
- ter Meer reaction
- Thermite reactions
- Thiele reaction
- Thorpe reaction
- Tiemann rearrangement
- Tiffeneau ring enlargement reaction
- Tiffeneau-Demjanow rearrangement
- Tischtschenko reaction
- Tishchenko reaction, Tischischenko-Claisen reaction
- Tollens reagent
- Trapp mixture
- Traube purine synthesis
- Truce-Smiles rearrangement
- Tscherniac-Einhorn reaction
- Tschitschibabin reaction
- Tschugajeff reaction
- Twitchell process
- Tyrer sulfonation process
(back up)
U
U
- Ugi reaction
- Ullmann reaction
- Upjohn dihydroxylation
- Urech cyanohydrin method
- Urech hydantoin synthesis
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V
V
- Van Slyke determination
- Varrentrapp reaction
- Vilsmeier reaction
- Vilsmeier-Haack reaction
- Voight amination
- Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
- von Braun amide degradation
- von Braun reaction
- von Richter cinnoline synthesis
- von Richter reaction
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W
W
- Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
- Wagner-Jauregg reaction
- Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
- Walden inversion
- Wallach rearrangement
- Weerman degradation
- Weinreb ketone synthesis
- Wenker ring closure
- Wenker synthesis
- Wessely-Moser rearrangement
- Westphalen-Lettré rearrangement
- Wharton reaction
- Whiting reaction
- Wichterle reaction
- Widman-Stoermer synthesis
- Wilkinson catalyst
- Willgerodt rearrangement
- Willgerodt-Kindler reaction
- Williamson ether synthesis
- Winstein reaction
- Wittig reaction
- Wittig rearrangement
- Wittig-Horner reaction
- Wohl degradation
- Wohl-Aue reaction
- Wohler synthesis
- Wohl-Ziegler reaction
- Wolffenstein-Böters reaction
- Wolff rearrangement
- Wolff-Kishner reduction
- Woodward cis-hydroxylation
- Woodward-Hoffmann rule
- Wurtz coupling, Wurtz reaction
- Wurtz-Fittig reaction
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Z
Z
- Zeisel determination
- Zerevitinov determination, Zerewitinoff determination
- Ziegler condensation
- Ziegler method
- Zimmermann reaction
- Zincke disulfide cleavage
- Zinke nitration
- Zincke reaction
- Zincke-Suhl reaction
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