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| 1,2-Wittig rearrangement Olefination | A 1,2-Wittig rearrangement is a categorization of chemical reactions in organic chemistry, and consists of a 1,2-rearrangement of an ether with an alkyllithium compound. The reaction is named for Nobe… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| 2,3-Wittig rearrangement Olefination | The [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement is the transformation of an allylic ether into a homoallylic alcohol via a concerted, pericyclic process. Because the reaction is concerted, it exhibits a high degree of… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Abramov reaction | The Abramov reaction is the related conversions of trialkyl to α-hydroxy phosphonates by the addition to carbonyl compounds. In terms of mechanism, the reaction involves attack of the nucleophilic ph… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Achmatowicz reaction | The Achmatowicz reaction, also known as the Achmatowicz rearrangement or the Achmatowicz oxidation, is an organic synthesis in which a furan is converted to a dihydropyran. In the original publication… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Adams decarboxylation | The Adams decarboxylation is a chemical reaction that involved the decarboxylation of coumarins which have carboxylic acid group in the third position. The decarboxylation is achieved by aqueous solut… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Adkins–Peterson reaction | The Adkins–Peterson reaction is the air oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde with metal oxide catalysts such as iron oxide, molybdenum trioxide or combinations thereof. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Akabori amino-acid reaction | There are several Akabori amino acid reactions, which are named after Shirō Akabori (Japanese: 赤堀 四郎) (1900–1992), a Japanese chemist. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Albright–Goldman oxidation Oxidation | The Albright–Goldman oxidation is a name reaction of organic chemistry, first described by the American chemists J. Donald Albright and Leon Goldman in 1965. The reaction is particularly suitable for … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aldol–Tishchenko reaction Condensation | The Aldol–Tishchenko reaction is a tandem reaction involving an aldol reaction and a Tishchenko reaction. In organic synthesis, it is a method to convert aldehydes and ketones into 1,3-hydroxyl compou… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Algar–Flynn–Oyamada reaction | The Algar–Flynn–Oyamada reaction is a chemical reaction whereby a chalcone undergoes an oxidative cyclization to form a flavonol. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Allan–Robinson reaction Cyclization | The Allan–Robinson reaction is the chemical reaction of o-hydroxyaryl ketones with aromatic anhydrides to form flavones (or isoflavones). | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Allen–Millar–Trippett rearrangement Rearrangement | The Allen–Millar–Trippett rearrangement is a ring expansion reaction in which a cyclic phosphine is transformed into a cyclic phosphine oxide. This name reaction, first reported in the 1960s by David … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Amadori rearrangement Rearrangement | The Amadori rearrangement is an organic reaction describing the acid or base catalyzed isomerization or rearrangement reaction of the N-glycoside of an aldose or the glycosylamine to the corresponding… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Andrussow process | The Andrussow process is the dominant industrial process for the production of hydrogen cyanide. It involves the reaction of methane, ammonia, and oxygen. The process is catalyzed by a platinum-rhodi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Angeli–Rimini reaction | The Angeli–Rimini reaction is an organic reaction between an aldehyde and N-hydroxybenzenesulfonamide in presence of base forming a hydroxamic acid. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Appel reaction Substitution | The Appel reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into an alkyl chloride using triphenylphosphine and carbon tetrachloride. The use of carbon tetrabromide or bromine as a halide sourc… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Arens–van Dorp synthesis | The Arens–van Dorp synthesis is a name reaction in organic chemistry. It describes the addition of lithiated ethoxyacetylenes to ketones to give propargyl alcohols, which can undergo further reaction … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Arndt–Eistert reaction | In organic chemistry, the Arndt–Eistert reaction is the conversion of a carboxylic acid to its homologue. It is named for the German chemists Fritz Arndt (1885–1969) and Bernd Eistert (1902–1978). The… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Asinger reaction | The Asinger reaction (sometimes referred to as the Asinger-4 component reaction or A-4CR for short) is a multicomponent reaction for the synthesis of 3-thiazolines and other related heterocycles. It i… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aston–Greenburg rearrangement Rearrangement | The Aston–Greenburg rearrangement is a name reaction in organic chemistry. It allows for the generation of tertiary α-alkylesters from corresponding α-haloketones through a 1,2-rearrangement, with the… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Atherton–Todd reaction | The Atherton-Todd reaction is a name reaction in organic chemistry, which goes back to the British chemists F. R. Atherton, H. T. Openshaw and A. R. Todd. These described the reaction for the first ti… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Auwers synthesis | The Auwers synthesis is a series of organic reactions forming a flavonol from a coumarone. This reaction was first reported by Karl von Auwers in 1908. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aza-Baylis–Hillman reaction | The aza-Baylis–Hillman reaction or aza-BH reaction in organic chemistry is a variation of the Baylis–Hillman reaction and describes the reaction of an electron deficient alkene, usually an α,β-unsatur… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aza-Cope rearrangement Rearrangement | Rearrangements, especially those that can participate in cascade reactions, such as the aza-Cope rearrangements, are of high practical as well as conceptual importance in organic chemistry, due to the… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aza-Diels–Alder reaction | The aza-Diels–Alder reaction is a modification of the Diels–Alder reaction wherein a nitrogen replaces sp2 carbon. The nitrogen atom can be part of the diene or the dienophile. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Aza-Wittig reaction Olefination | The Aza-Wittig reaction or is a chemical reaction of a carbonyl group with an aza-ylide, also known as an iminophosphorane (R3P=NR'). Aza-Wittig reactions are most commonly used to convert aldehydes… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition Cycloaddition | The azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition is a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition between an azide and a terminal or internal alkyne to give a 1,2,3-triazole. Rolf Huisgen was the first to understand the scope of… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Babler oxidation Oxidation | The Babler oxidation, also known as the Babler–Dauben oxidation, is an organic reaction for the oxidative transposition of tertiary allylic alcohols to enones using pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC): | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baeyer–Drewsen indigo synthesis | The Baeyer–Drewsen indigo synthesis (1882) is an organic reaction in which indigo is prepared from 2-nitrobenzaldehyde and acetone The reaction was developed by von Baeyer and Viggo Drewsen in … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baeyer–Emmerling indole synthesis | Baeyer–Emmerling indole synthesis is a method for synthesizing indole from a (substituted) ortho-nitrocinnamic acid and iron powder in strongly basic solution. This reaction was discovered by Adolf vo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baeyer–Villiger oxidation Oxidation | The Baeyer–Villiger oxidation is an organic reaction that forms an ester from a ketone or a lactone from a cyclic ketone, using peroxyacids or peroxides as the oxidant. The reaction is named after Ado… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bailey peptide synthesis | The Bailey peptide synthesis is a name reaction in organic chemistry developed 1949 by J. L. Bailey. It is a method for the synthesis of a peptide from α-amino acid-N-carboxylic acid anhydrides (NCAs)… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement Rearrangement | The Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement is the chemical reaction of 2-acetoxyacetophenones with base to form 1,3-diketones. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Balz–Schiemann reaction | The Balz–Schiemann reaction (also called the Schiemann reaction) is a chemical reaction in which an aryl diazonium salt is transformed to an aryl fluoride. This reaction is a traditional route to fluo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bamberger rearrangement Rearrangement | The Bamberger rearrangement is the chemical reaction of phenylhydroxylamines with strong aqueous acid, which will rearrange to give 4-aminophenols. It is named for the German chemist Eugen Bamberger (… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bamberger triazine synthesis | The Bamberger triazine synthesis in organic chemistry is a classic organic synthesis of a triazine first reported by Eugen Bamberger in 1892. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bamford–Stevens reaction | The Bamford–Stevens reaction is a chemical reaction whereby treatment of tosylhydrazones with strong base gives alkenes. It is named for the British chemist William Randall Bamford and the Scottish ch… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Banert cascade | The Banert cascade is an organic reaction in which an NH-1,2,3-triazole is prepared from a propargyl halide or sulfate and sodium azide in a dioxane- water mixture at elevated temperatures. It is name… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barbier reaction Organometallic addition | The Barbier reaction is an organometallic reaction between an alkyl halide (chloride, bromide, iodide), a carbonyl group and a metal. The reaction can be performed using magnesium, aluminium, zinc, in… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barbier–Wieland degradation Organometallic addition | The Barbier–Wieland degradation is a procedure for shortening the carbon chain of a carboxylic acid by one carbon. It only works when the carbon adjacent to the carboxyl is a simple methylene bridge (… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bargellini reaction | The Bargellini reaction is a chemical reaction discovered in 1906 by Italian chemist Guido Bargellini. The original reaction was a mixture of the reagents phenol, chloroform, and acetone in the presen… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bartoli indole synthesis | The Bartoli indole synthesis (also called the Bartoli reaction) is the chemical reaction of ortho-substituted nitroarenes and nitrosoarenes with vinyl Grignard reagents to form substituted indoles. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barton decarboxylation | The Barton decarboxylation is a radical reaction in which a carboxylic acid is converted to a thiohydroxamate ester (commonly referred to as a Barton ester). The product is then heated in the presenc… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barton–Kellogg reaction | The Barton–Kellogg reaction is a coupling reaction between a diazo compound and a thioketone, giving an alkene by way of an episulfide intermediate.[1][2][3] The Barton–Kellogg reaction is also known… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barton–McCombie deoxygenation | The Barton–McCombie deoxygenation is an organic reaction in which a hydroxy functional group in an organic compound is replaced by a hydrogen to give an alkyl group. It is named after British chemists… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barton nitrite ester reaction | The Barton reaction, also known as the Barton nitrite ester reaction, is a photochemical reaction that involves the photolysis of an alkyl nitrite to form a δ-nitroso alcohol. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Barton–Zard reaction | The Barton–Zard reaction is a route to pyrrole derivatives via the reaction of a nitroalkene with an α-isocyanide under basic conditions. It is named after Derek Barton and Samir Zard who first report… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baudisch reaction | In organic chemistry, the Baudisch reaction is a process for the synthesis of nitrosophenols using metal ions. Although the products are of limited value, the reaction is of historical interest as an … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Baylis–Hillman reaction | In organic chemistry, the Baylis–Hillman, Morita–Baylis–Hillman, or MBH reaction is a carbon–carbon bond-forming reaction between an activated alkene and a carbon electrophile in the presence of a nuc… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bechamp reaction | In organic synthesis the Béchamp reaction is used for producing arsonic acids from activated aromatic substrates. The reaction is an electrophilic aromatic substitution, using arsenic acid as the elec… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |