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• [1,2]-Wittig Rearrangement
• [1,3]-Dipolar Cycloaddition
• [2,3]-Wittig Rearrangement
• [1,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements
• [1,5]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements
• [1,7]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements
• [3,3]-Sigmatropic Rearrangements
• [4+2]-Cycloaddition (see Diels-Alder Reaction)
• 4-Component Coupling Reaction (see Ugi Reaction)
• Acetoacetic Ester Synthesis
• Acetylene Zipper Reaction
• Acyloin Condensation
• Akabori Amino Acid Reactions
• Aldol Reaction (Addition & Condensation)
• Algar-Flynn-Oyamada Reaction
• Alkyne Trimerisation
• Allan-Robinson Reaction
• Allylic Rearrangements
• Amadori Rearrangement
• Appel Reaction
• Arbuzov Reaction
• Arens-van Dorp Synthesis
• Arndt-Eistert Synthesis
• Auwers Synthesis
• Baeyer-Drewson Indigo Synthesis
• Baeyer-Villiger Reaction
• Baker-Venkataraman Rearrangement
• Baldwin “Rules” for Ring Closure
• Bamberger Rearrangement
• Bamford-Stevens Reaction
• Barbier-type Coupling Reaction
• Barbier-Wieland Degradation
• Bart Reaction
• Barton Decarboxylation
• Barton-Kellogg Olefin Synthesis
• Barton-McCombie Reaction (Deoxygenation)
• Barton-Zard Reaction
• Baudisch Reaction
• Bayer Test
• Bayliss-Hillman Reaction
• Béchamp Reduction
• Beckmann Rearrangement
• Bénary Reaction
• Benkeser Reduction
• Benzidine Rearrangement
• Benzilic Acid Rearrangement
• Benzoin Condensation
• Bergius Process
• Bergman Reaction
• Bergmann Azlactone Peptide Synthesis
• Bermann-Zervas Carbobenzoxy Method
• Bergmann Degradation
• Bernthsen Acridine Synthesis
• Betti Reaction
• Biginelli Reaction
• Birch Reduction
• Bischler-Möhlau Indole Synthesis
• Bischer-Napieralski Reaction
• Blaise Ketone Synthesis
• Blaise Reaction
• Blanc Chloromethylation Reaction
• Blanc Reaction/Blanc Rule
• Bodroux Reaction
• Bogert-Cook Synthesis
• Bohn-Schmidt Reaction
• Boord Olefin Synthesis
• Borsche-Drechsel Cyclization
• Bouveault Aldehyde Synthesis
• Bouveault-Blanc Reduction
• Boyland-Sims Oxidation
• Bradsher Cyclization
• Bradsher Reaction
• Bredt’s Rule
• Brook Rearrangement
• Bucherer Carbazole Synthesis
• Bucherer Reaction
• Bucherer-Bergs Reaction
• Bucherer Carbazole Synthesis
• Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck Reaction
• Buchner Method of Ring Enlargement
• Buchwald-Hartwig Cross Coupling Reaction
• Bunnett Reaction (Radical-Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution)
• Cadiot-Chodkiewics Coupling
• Camps Quinoline Synthesis
• Cannizzaro Reaction
• Carroll Rearrangement
• Castro-Stephens Coupling
• Chapman Rearrangement
• Chichibabin Pyridine Synthesis
• Chichibabin Reaction
• Chugaev Reaction (“Tschugaeff” Olefination)
• Ciamician-Dennstedt Reaction
• Claisen Condensation
• Claisen Rearrangement
• Claisen-Schmidt Condensation
• Clemmensen Reduction
• Combes Quinline Synthesis
• Conia-Ene Reaction
• Conrad-Limpach Cyclization
• Contardi Reaction (a Sandmeyer Reaction)
• Cope Elimination Reaction
• Cope Rearrangement
• Corey-Bakshi-Shibata (CBS) Reduction
• Corey-Fuchs Reaction
• Corey-Kim Oxidation
• Corey-Winter Olefin Synthesis
• Cornforth Rearrangement
• Craig Method
• Criegee Reaction (Mechanism)
• Curtius Rearrangement
• Dakin Reaction
• Dakin-West Reaction
• Darzens Condensation
• Darzens Synthesis of Tetralin Derivatives
• Darzens-Nenitzescu Synthesis of Ketones
• de Mayo Reaction
• Delépine Reaction
• Demjanov Rearrangement
• Dess-Martin Oxidation
• D-Homo Rearrangement of Steroids
• Dieckmann Reaction
• Diels-Alder Reaction
• Dienes: Danishefsky, Roussard, Rawal
• Dienone-Phenol Rearrangement
• Dimroth Rearrangement
• Doebner Reaction
• Doebner-Miller Reaction
• Doering-LaFlamme Allene Synthesis
• Dötz Reaction
• Dowd-Beckwith Ring Expansion Reaction
• Duff Reaction
• Dutt-Wormall Reaction
• Eastwood Reaction (Deoxygenation)
• Edman Degradation
• Eherlich-Sachs Reaction
• Einhorn-Brunner Reaction
• Elbs Persulfate Oxidation
• Elbs Reactions
• Embe Degradation
• Emmert  Reaction
• Ene Reaction
• Erlenmeyer-Plöchl Azlactone and Amino Acid Synthesis
• Eschenmoser Coupling Reaction (or Sulfide Contraction)
• Eschenmoser Fragmentation
• Eschenmoser-Claisen rearrangement
• Étard Reaction
• Evans Aldol Reaction (Auxiliary)
• Favorskii Rearrangement
• Favorskii-Babyan Synthesis
• Feist-Bénary Synthesis
• Fenton Reaction
• Ferrier Rearrangement
• Finkelstein Reaction
• Fischer Indole Synthesis
• Fischer Phenylhydrazine Synthesis
• Fischer Phenylhydrazone and Osazone Reactions
• Fischer-Hepp Rearrangement
• Fischer-Speier Esterification Method
• Flood Reaction
• Forster Diazoketone Synthesis
• Forster Reaction
• Franchimont Reaction
• Frankland Synthesis
• Frankland-Duppa Reaction
• Freund Reaction
• Friedel-Crafts Reactions
• Friedläender Synthesis
• Fries Rearrangement
• Fritsch-Buttenber-Wiechell Rearrangement
• Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction
• Gabriel Ethylenimine Method
• Gabriel Amine Synthesis
• Gabriel-Colman Rearrangement
• Gattermann Aldehyde Synthesis
• Gattermann-Koch Reaction
• Glaser Coupling
• Gomberg Free Radical Reaction
• Gomberg-Bachmann Reaction
• Gould-Jacob Reaction
• Graebe-Ullman Synthesis
• Griess Diazo Reaction
• Grignard Degradation
• Grignard Reaction
• Grob Fragmentation
• Grubbs Catalyst
• Grubbs Metathesis Reactions
• Grundmann Aldehyde Synthesis
• Guareschi-Thorpe Condensation
• Gutknecht Pyrazine Synthesis
• Haller-Bauer Reaction
• Haloform Reaction
• Hammick Reaction
• Hantzsch Dihydropyridine Synthesis
• Hantzsch Pyrrole Synthesis
• Harries Ozonide Reaction
• Haworth Methylation
• Haworth Phenanthrene Synthesis
• Hayashi Rearrangement
• Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky Reaction
• Henry Reaction
• Herz Reaction
• Hilbert-Johnson Reaction
• Hinsber Oxindole and Oxiquinoline Synthesis
• Hinsberg Sulfone Synthesis
• Hinberg Synthesis of Thiophene Derivatives
• Hoch-Campbell Aziridine Synthesis
• Hofmann Degradation or Elimination (Exhaustive Methylation)
• Hofmann Isonitrile Synthesis
• Hofmann Reaction
• Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag Reaction
• Hofmann-Martius Rearrangement
• Hofmann-Sand Reactions
• Hooker Reaction
• Houben-Fischer Synthesis
• Houben-Hoesch Reaction
• Hückel’s Rule
• Hunsdiecker Reaction (Borodine Reaction)
• HWE (Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons) Reaction
• Hydroboration Reaction
• Ireland-Claisen Rearrangement
• Ivanov Reaction
• Jacobsen Epoxidation
• Jacobsen Rearrangement
• Janovsky Reaction
• Japp-Klingemann Reaction
• Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement
• Jones Oxidation
• Julia Olefination
• Keck Reaction
• Kendall-Mattox Reaction
• Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis
• Kishner Cyclopropane Synthesis
• Knoevenagel Condensation
• Knoop-Oesterlin Amino Acid Synthesis
• Knorr Pyrazole Synthesis
• Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis
• Knorr Quinoline Synthesis
• Koch-Haaf Carboxylations
• Kochi Reaction
• Koenigs-Knorr Synthesis
• Kolbe Electrolytic Synthesis
• Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction
• Kostanecki Acylation
• Krafft Degradation
• Krapcho Decarboxylation
• Kröhnke Oxidation
• Kröhnke Pyridine Synthesis
• Kucherov Reaction
• Kuhn-Winterstein Reaction
• Kumada Cross Coupling
• Ladenburg Rearrangement
• Lehmstedt-Tanasescu Reaction
• Letts Nitrile Synthesis
• Leuckart Thiophenol Reaction
• Lindlar Catalyst
• Lossen Rearrangement
• Madelung Synthesis
• Malaprade Reaction
• Malonic Ester Synthesis
• Mannich Reaction
• Markovnikov’s Rule (Markownikow’s Rule)
• Marschalk Reaction
• Martinet Dioxindole Synthesis
• McFadyen-Stevens Reaction
• McLafferty Rearrangement
• McMurry Coupling Reaction
• Meerwein Arylation
• Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction
• Meisenheimer Rearrangements
• Menschutkin Reaction
• Merrifield Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis (SPPS)
• Mey Reaction
• Meyer Synthesis
• Meyers Aldehyde Synthesis
• Meyer-Schuster Rearrangement
• Michael Reaction
• Michaelis-Arbuzov Reaction
• Mignonac Reaction
• Milas Hydroxulation of Olefins
• Mislow-Evans Rearrangement
• Mitsunobu Reaction
• Moffat Oxidation
• Moore Myers Cyclization
• Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction
• Mukaiyama-Michael Reaction
• Myers Aldehyde Synthesis
• Nagata Hydrocyanation
• Nazarov Cyclization Reaction
• Neber Rearrangement
• Nef Reaction
• Nef Synthesis
• Negishi Cross Coupling
• Nenitzescu Indole Synthesis
• Nenitzescu Reductive Acylation
• Nicholas Reaction
• Niementowski Quinazoline Synthesis
• Niementowski Quinoline Synthesis
• Nierenstein Reaction
• Norrish Type Cleavages (I & II)
• Noyori Hydrogenation
• Noazi-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction
• Ohira-Bestmann Homologation
• Olefin Metathesis
• Oppenauer Oxidation
• Overman Rearrangement
• Paal-Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis
• Parham Cyclization
• Parikh-Doering Reaction
• Passerini Reaction
• Paterno-Büchi  Reaction
• Pauson-Khand Reaction
• Payne Rearrangement
• Pechmann Condensation
• Pechmann Pyrazole Synthesis
• Pellizzari Reaction Pelouze Synthesis
• Perkin Alicyclic Synthesis
• Perkin Reaction
• Perkin Rearrangement
• Perkow Reaction
• Peterson Olefination
• Petrenko-Krishenko Piperidone Synthesis
• Pfau-Plattner Azulene Synthesis
• Pfitzinger Reaction
• Pfitzner-Moffatt Oxidation
• Pictet-Gams Isoquinoline Synthesis
• Pictet-Hubert Reaction
• Pictet-Spengler Isoquinoline Synthesis
• Piloty-Robinson Synthesis
• Pinacol Coupling Reaction
• Pinacol Rearrangement
• Pinner Reaction
• Pinner Triazine Synthesis
• Piria Reaction
• Polonovski Reaction
• Pomeranz-Fritsch Reaction
• Ponzio Reaction
• Prévost Reaction
• Prilezhaev (Prileschajew) Reaction
• Prins Reaction Pschorr Reaction
• Pummerer Rearrangement
• Purdie Methylation
• Quelet Reaction
• Ramberg-Backlund Reaction
• Reformatsky (Reformatskii) Reaction
• Reimer-Tiemann Reaction
• Reissert Indole Synthesis
• Reissert Reaction
• Reverdin Reaction
• Riehm Quinoline Synthesis
• Riemschneider Thiocarbamate Synthesis
• Riley Oxidations
• Ritter Reaction
• Robinson Annulation
• Robinson-Schöpf Reaction
• Rosenmund Reduction
• Rosenmund-von Braun Synthesis
• Rothemund Reaction
• Rubottom Oxidation
• Ruf-Fenton Degradation
• Ruzicka Large Ring Synthesis
• Saegusa Oxidation
• Sakurai Reaction
• Sandmeyer Diphenylurea Isatin Synthesis
• Sandmeyer Isonitrosoacetanilide Isatin Synthesis
• Sandmeyer Reaction
• Sarett Oxidation
• Sanger’s Reagent
• Schiemann Reaction
• Schmidt Reaction
• Scholl REaction
• Schöllkopf Bis-Lactim Amino Acid Synthesis
• Schotten-Baumann Reaction
• Semmler-Wolff Reaction
• Serini Reaction
• Seyferth-Gilbert Homologation
• Shapiro Reaction
• Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation
• Sharpless Asymmetric Epoxidation
• Sharpless Asymmetric Oxyamination
• Shi Epoxidation
• Simmons-Smith Reaction
• Simonini Reaction
• Smiles Rearrangement
• Sommelet Reaction
• Sommelet-Hauser Rearrangement
• Sonn-Müller Method
• Sonogashira Coupling
• Staudinger Reaction
• Stephens Aldehyde Synthesis
• Stetter Reaction
• Stevens Rearrangement
• Stieglitz Rearrangement
• Stille Coupling
• Stobbe Condensation
• Stollé Synthesis
• Stork Enamine Reaction
• Strecker Amino Acid Synthesis
• Strecker Degradation
• Strecker Sulfite Alkylation
• Suarez Reaction
• Sugasawa Reaction
• Suzuki Coupling
• Schwartz Reaction
• Swern Oxidation
• Tebbe Olefination
• Thiele Reaction
• Thorpe Reaction
• Tiemann Rearrangement
• Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement
• Tishchenko Reaction
• Traube Purine Synthesis
• Tscherniac-Einhorn Reaction
• Tsuji-Trost Reaction (Allylation)
• Ugi Reaction (4-Component Condensation)
• Ullmann Reaction
• Urech Cyanohydrin Method
• Urech Hydantoin Synthesis
• Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction
• Voight Amination
• Volhard-Erdmann Cyclization
• von Braun Amide Degradation
• von Braun Reaction
• von Richter (Cinnoline) Synthesis
• von Richter Rearrangement
• Vorbrüggen Glycosylation
• Wacker Oxidation
• Wagner-Jauregg Reaction
• Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement
• Walden Inversion
• Wallach Rearrangement
• Weerman Degradation
• Weinreb Amidation
• Westphalen-Lettré Rearrangement
• Wharton Reaction
• Weiss Reaction
• Whiting Reaction
• Wichterle Reaction
• Widman-Stoermer Synthesis
• Willgerodt-Kindler Reaction
• Williams Amino Acid Synthesis
• Williamson Synthesis
• Wittig Reaction
• Wohl-Ziegler Reaction
• Wolff Rearrangement
• Wolffenstein-Böters Reaction
• Wolff-Kishner Reaction
• Woodward cis-dihydroxylation
• Woodward Iodolactonization
• Woodward Rules
• Wurtz Reaction
• Wurtz-Fittig Reaction
• Zaitzev’s Rule (Saytseff’s Rule)
• Ziegler Method
• Zincke Disulfide Cleavage
• Zincke Nitration
• Zincke-Suhl Reaction

Organic Name Reactions

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