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| Swern oxidation Oxidation | In organic chemistry, the Swern oxidation also known as Moffatt–Swern, named after Daniel Swern, is a chemical reaction whereby a primary or secondary alcohol (−OH) is oxidized to an aldehyde (−CH=O) … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Takai olefination Olefination | Takai olefination in organic chemistry describes the organic reaction of an aldehyde with a diorganochromium compound to form an alkene. It is a name reaction, named for Kazuhiko Takai, who first repo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Takai-Oshima-Lombardo methylenation | The Takai-Oshima-Lombardo methylenation refers to reactions involving a combination of zinc, a dihalomethane, and titanium tetrachloride to perform methylenation of carbonyl derivatives. This reagen… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Thorpe reaction | The Thorpe reaction is a chemical reaction described as a self-condensation of aliphatic nitriles catalyzed by base to form enamines. The reaction was discovered by Jocelyn Field Thorpe. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement Rearrangement | The Tiffeneau–Demjanov rearrangement is the chemical reaction of a 1-aminomethyl-cycloalkanol with nitrous acid to form an enlarged cycloketone. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tipson–Cohen reaction | The Tipson–Cohen reaction is a name reaction first discovered by Stuart Tipson and Alex Cohen at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington D.C. The Tipson–Cohen reaction occurs when two neighbori… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tishchenko reaction Disproportionation | The Tishchenko reaction is an organic chemical reaction that involves disproportionation of an aldehyde in the presence of an alkoxide. The reaction is named after Russian organic chemist Vyacheslav … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tscherniak-Einhorn reaction | The Tscherniak-Einhorn reaction is an organic chemistry name reaction initiated in 1901 by Joseph Tscherniak. It involves the condensation of N- hydroxymethylphthalimide with varied aromatic compounds… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tsuji–Trost reaction | The Tsuji–Trost reaction (also called the Trost allylic alkylation or allylic alkylation) is a palladium-catalysed substitution reaction involving a substrate that contains a leaving group in an allyl… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Tsuji–Wilkinson decarbonylation reaction | The Tsuji–Wilkinson decarbonylation reaction is a method for the decarbonylation of aldehydes and some acyl chlorides. The reaction name recognizes Jirō Tsuji, whose team first reported the use of Wil… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Ugi reaction | In organic chemistry, the Ugi reaction is a multi-component reaction involving a ketone or aldehyde, an amine, an isocyanide and a carboxylic acid to form a bis-amide. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Ullmann condensation Condensation | The Ullmann condensation or Ullmann-type reaction is the copper-promoted conversion of aryl halides to aryl ethers, aryl thioethers, aryl nitriles, and aryl amines. These reactions are examples of cro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Ullmann reaction | The Ullmann reaction or Ullmann coupling, named after Fritz Ullmann, couples two aryl or alkyl groups with the help of copper. The reaction was first reported by Ullmann and his student Bielecki in 19… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Upjohn dihydroxylation | The Upjohn dihydroxylation is an organic reaction which converts an alkene to a cis vicinal diol. It was developed by V. VanRheenen, R. C. Kelly and D. Y. Cha of the Upjohn Company in 1976. It is a c… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Urech hydantoin synthesis | The Urech hydantoin synthesis is the chemical reaction of amino acids with potassium cyanate and hydrochloric acid to give hydantoins. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Van den Bergh reaction | Van den Bergh reaction is a chemical reaction used to measure bilirubin levels in blood. More specifically, it determines the amount of conjugated bilirubin in the blood. The reaction produces azobili… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Van Leusen reaction | The Van Leusen reaction is the reaction of a ketone with TosMIC leading to the formation of a nitrile. It was first described in 1977 by Van Leusen and co-workers. When aldehydes are employed, the Van… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Varrentrapp reaction | The Varrentrapp reaction, also named Varrentrapp degradation, is a name reaction in the organic chemistry. It is named after Franz Varrentrapp, who described this reaction in 1840. The reaction entai… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Vicarious nucleophilic substitution Substitution | In organic chemistry, the vicarious nucleophilic substitution is a special type of nucleophilic aromatic substitution in which a nucleophile replaces a hydrogen atom on the aromatic ring and not leavi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Vilsmeier–Haack reaction | The Vilsmeier–Haack reaction (also called the Vilsmeier reaction) is the chemical reaction of a substituted formamide (1) with phosphorus oxychloride and an electron-rich arene (3) to produce an aryl … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Volhard–Erdmann cyclization Cyclization | The Volhard–Erdmann cyclization is an organic synthesis of alkyl and aryl thiophenes by cyclization of disodium succinate or other 1,4-difunctional compounds (γ-oxo acids, 1,4-diketones, chloroacetyl-… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Von Braun amide degradation | The von Braun amide degradation is the chemical reaction of a monosubstituted amide with phosphorus pentachloride or thionyl chloride to give a nitrile and an organohalide. It is named after Julius Ja… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Von Braun reaction | The von Braun reaction is an organic reaction in which a tertiary amine reacts with cyanogen bromide to an organocyanamide. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Von Richter reaction | The von Richter reaction, also named von Richter rearrangement, is a name reaction in the organic chemistry. It is named after Victor von Richter, who discovered this reaction in year 1871. It is the … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wacker process | The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) is an industrial chemical reaction: the aerobic oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde in the pres… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wagner-Jauregg reaction | The Wagner-Jauregg reaction is a classic organic reaction in organic chemistry, named after Theodor Wagner-Jauregg (son of Julius Wagner-Jauregg), describing the double Diels–Alder reaction of 2 equiv… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement Rearrangement | A Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement is a class of carbocation 1,2-rearrangement reactions in which a hydrogen, alkyl or aryl group migrates from one carbon to a neighboring carbon. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wallach rearrangement Rearrangement | The Wallach rearrangement, also named Wallach transformation, is a name reaction in the organic chemistry. It is named after Otto Wallach, who discovered this reaction in 1880. In general it is a stro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Weerman degradation | Weerman degradation, also named Weerman reaction, is a name reaction in organic chemistry. It is named after Rudolf Adrian Weerman, who discovered it in 1910. In general, it is an organic reaction in … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Weinreb ketone synthesis | The Weinreb ketone synthesis or Weinreb–Nahm ketone synthesis is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry to make carbon–carbon bonds. It was discovered in 1981 by Steven M. Weinreb and Steven Na… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wenker synthesis | The Wenker synthesis is an organic reaction converting a beta amino alcohol to an aziridine with the help of sulfuric acid. It is used industrially for the synthesis of aziridine itself. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Westphalen–Lettré rearrangement Rearrangement | The Westphalen–Lettré rearrangement is a classic organic reaction in organic chemistry describing a rearrangement reaction of cholestane-3β,5α,6β-triol diacetate with acetic anhydride and sulfuric aci… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wharton reaction | The Wharton olefin synthesis or the Wharton reaction is a chemical reaction that involves the reduction of α,β-epoxy ketones using hydrazine to give allylic alcohols. This reaction, introduced in 196… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Whiting reaction | The Whiting reaction is an organic reaction converting a propargyl diol into a diene using lithium aluminium hydride. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Willgerodt rearrangement Rearrangement | The Willgerodt rearrangement or Willgerodt reaction is an organic reaction converting an aryl alkyl ketone, alkyne, or alkene to the corresponding amide by reaction with ammonium polysulfide, named af… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Williamson ether synthesis Substitution | The Williamson ether synthesis is an organic reaction, forming an ether from an organohalide and a deprotonated alcohol (alkoxide). This reaction was developed by Alexander Williamson in 1850. Typica… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wittig reaction Olefination | The Wittig reaction or Wittig olefination is a chemical reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with a triphenyl phosphonium ylide called a Wittig reagent. Wittig reactions are most commonly used to conve… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wohl–Aue reaction | The Wohl–Aue reaction is an organic reaction between an aromatic nitro compound and an aniline to form a phenazine in presence of an alkali base. An example is the reaction between nitrobenzene and a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wohl degradation | The Wohl degradation in carbohydrate chemistry is a chain contraction method for aldoses. The classic example is the conversion of glucose to arabinose as shown below. The reaction is named after the … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wöhler synthesis | The Wöhler synthesis is the conversion of ammonium cyanate into urea. This chemical reaction was described in 1828 by Friedrich Wöhler. It is often cited as the starting point of modern organic chemis… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wohl–Ziegler bromination | is a chemical reaction that involves the allylic or benzylic bromination of hydrocarbons using an N-bromosuccinimide and a radical initiator. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wolffenstein–Böters reaction Rearrangement | The Wolffenstein–Böters reaction is an organic reaction converting benzene to picric acid by a mixture of aqueous nitric acid and mercury(II) nitrate. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wolff–Kishner reduction Rearrangement | The Wolff–Kishner reduction is a reaction used in organic chemistry to convert carbonyl functionalities into methylene groups. In the context of complex molecule synthesis, it is most frequently emplo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wolff rearrangement Rearrangement | The Wolff rearrangement is a reaction in organic chemistry in which an α-diazocarbonyl compound is converted into a ketene by loss of dinitrogen with accompanying 1,2-rearrangement. The Wolff rearran… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Woodward cis-hydroxylation | The Woodward cis-hydroxylation (also known as the Woodward reaction) is the chemical reaction of alkenes with iodine and silver acetate in wet acetic acid to form cis-diols.(conversion of olefin into … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wulff–Dötz reaction | The Wulff–Dötz reaction (also known as the Dötz reaction or the benzannulation reaction of the Fischer carbene complexes) is the chemical reaction of an aromatic or vinylic alkoxy pentacarbonyl chromi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wurtz–Fittig reaction | The Wurtz–Fittig reaction is the chemical reaction of an aryl halide, alkyl halides, and sodium metal to give substituted aromatic compounds. Following the work of Charles Adolphe Wurtz on the sodium-… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Wurtz reaction | In organic chemistry, the Wurtz reaction, named after Charles Adolphe Wurtz, is a coupling reaction in which two alkyl halides are treated with sodium metal to form a higher alkane. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Yamaguchi esterification | The Yamaguchi esterification is the chemical reaction of an aliphatic carboxylic acid and 2,4,6-trichlorobenzoyl chloride (TCBC, Yamaguchi reagent) to form a mixed anhydride which, upon reaction with … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Zincke nitration | The Zincke nitration is a nitration reaction in which a bromine is replaced by a nitro group on an electron-rich aryl compound such as a phenol or cresol. Typical reagents are nitrous acid or sodium n… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |