List of name reactions
Here is a list of many named reactions. The detailed mechanism is provided for each of them and several samples are given to illustrate their synthetic usefulness.
All of theses reactions are taken from our synthesis database and the list is continually growing.
A
B
- Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation
- Baker-Venkataraman Rearrangement
- Barton Decarboxylation
- Barton Vinyl Iodide Synthesis
- Barton-McCombie Reaction
- Baylis-Hillman Reaction
- Beckmann Rearrangement
- Benzoin Condensation
- Betti Reaction
- Birch Reduction
- Bischler-Napieralski Reaction
- Blanc Halomethylation
- Brook Rearrangement
- Buchwald-Hartwig Coupling
- Burgess Dehydration
C
- Chan Rearrangement
- Charette Asymmetric Cyclopropanation
- Chugaev Elimination
- Claisen Condensation
- Claisen Rearrangement
- Claisen-Schmidt Condensation
- Clemmensen Reduction
- Collins Oxidation
- Conrad-Limpach Synthesis
- Cope Elimination
- Cope Rearrangement
- Corey-Fuchs Reaction
- Corey-Itsuno Reaction
- Corey-Kim Oxidation
- Corey-Nicolaou Macrolactonization
- Corey-Posner, Whitesides-House Reaction
- Corey-Seebach Reaction
- Corey-Winter Olefin Synthesis
- Criegee Reaction
- Curtius Rearrangement
D
- Dakin-West Reaction
- Darzens Condensation
- Davis Asymmetric Hydroxylation
- De Mayo Reaction
- Dess-Martin Oxidation
- Dieckmann Condensation
- Diels-Alder Reaction
- Doebner-Miller Reaction
- Duff Reaction
E
- Ene Reaction
- Eschenmoser Sulfide Contraction
- Eschenmoser-Claisen Rearrangement
- Eschweiler-Clarke Reaction
- Evans Asymmetric Aldol Addition
F
- Favorskii Rearrangement
- Finkelstein Reaction
- Fischer Esterification
- Fischer Indole Synthesis
- Fleming-Tamao Oxidation
- Friedel-Crafts Acylation
- Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
- Friedländer synthesis
- Fries Rearrangement
- Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell Rearrangement
- Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction
- Fukuyama Indole Synthesis
G
H
- Hanessian-Hullar Reaction
- Heck Coupling
- Hemetsberger Indole Synthesis
- Henry Reaction
- Hofmann Elimination
- Hofmann Rearrangement
- Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag Reaction
- Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reaction
- Hosomi-Sakurai Reaction
- Houben-Hoesch Reaction
- Huisgen Cycloaddition
I
J
- Japp-Klingemann Reaction
- Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement
- Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky Reaction
- Jones Oxidation
- Julia-Kociensky Olefination
K
- Keck Asymmetric Allylation
- Knoevenagel Condensation
- Kochi Reaction
- Kornblum Oxidation
- Krapcho Decarboxylation
- Kucherov Reaction
- Kumada-Corriu Coupling
L
- Leimgruber-Batcho Indole Synthesis
- Lemieux-Johnson Oxidation
- Ley-Griffith Oxidation
- Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein Rearrangement
- Lombardo Methylenation
- Luche Reduction
M
- Madelung Indole Synthesis
- Mannich Reaction
- McMurry Reaction
- Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction
- Michael Addition
- Michaelis-Arbuzov Reaction
- Mitsunobu Reaction
- Mukaiyama Aldol Addition
- Mukaiyama Hydration
- Myers Asymmetric Alkylation
N
- Nazarov Cyclization Reaction
- Neber Rearrangement
- Nef Reaction
- Negishi Coupling
- Nenitzescu Indole Synthesis
- Nicholas Reaction
- Norrish Reaction (Type II)
- Noyori Asymmetric Hydrogenation
- Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction
O
P
- Paal-Knorr Furan Synthesis
- Parikh-Doering Oxidation
- Passerini Reaction
- Paterno-Büchi Reaction
- Pauson-Khand Reaction
- Payne Epoxidation
- Payne Rearrangement
- Pechmann Condensation
- Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement
- Peterson Olefination
- Petrenko-Kritschenko Piperidone Synthesis
- Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
- Pictet-Spengler Reaction
- Pinacol Coupling
- Pinacol Rearrangement
- Pinner Reaction
- Pinnick-Lindgren Oxidation
- Polonovski-Potier Reaction
- Pomeranz-Fritsch Isoquinoline Synthesis
- Prilezhaev Reaction
- Prins Reaction
- Pummerer Rearrangement
R
- Ramberg-Bäcklund Reaction
- Reformatsky Reaction
- Robinson Annulation
- Rosenmund-von Braun Reaction
- Rubottom Oxidation
S
- Saegusa Oxidation
- Sandmeyer Reaction
- Schlosser Modification
- Schmidt Reaction
- Schotten-Baumann Reaction
- Semmler-Wolff Reaction
- Seyferth-Gilbert Homologation
- Shapiro Reaction
- Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation
- Sharpless Epoxidation
- Simmons-Smith Reaction
- Sonogashira Coupling
- Staudinger Reaction
- Steglich Esterification
- Stille Coupling
- Stobbe Condensation
- Stork Enamine Synthesis
- Suzuki Coupling
- Swern Oxidation
T
- Takai Reaction
- Tebbe-Petasis Olefination
- Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction
- Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement
- Tollens Reaction
- Trost Asymmetic Allylation Alkylation
- Tsuji-Trost Reaction
U
V
W
- Wacker Oxidation
- Weinreb Ketone Synthesis
- Weiss-Cook Condensation
- Wharton Reaction
- Willgerodt-Kindler Reaction
- Williamson Ether Synthesis
- Wittig Reaction
- Wohl-Ziegler Reaction
- Wolff Rearrangement
- Wolff-Kishner Reduction
- Wulff-Dötz Reaction
