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| Béchamp reduction Reduction | The Béchamp reduction (or Béchamp process) is a chemical reaction that converts aromatic nitro compounds to their corresponding anilines using iron as the reductant: | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Beckmann rearrangement Rearrangement | The Beckmann rearrangement, named after the German chemist Ernst Otto Beckmann (1853–1923), is a rearrangement of an oxime functional group to an amide functional group. The rearrangement has also bee… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction | A Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction, or BZ reaction, is one of a class of reactions that serve as a classical example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, resulting in the establishment of a nonlinear chemi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Benary reaction | The Benary reaction is an organic reaction. In 1931 Erich Bénary discovered that β-(N,N-dialkylamino)-vinyl ketones reacted with Grignard reagents in a 1,4-addition to give α,β-unsaturated ketones, α,… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bergman cyclization Cyclization | The Masamune-Bergman cyclization or Masamune-Bergman reaction or Masamune-Bergman cycloaromatization is an organic reaction and more specifically a rearrangement reaction taking place when an enediyne… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis | The Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis is a classic organic synthesis process for the preparation of dipeptides. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bergmann degradation | The Bergmann degradation is a series of chemical reactions designed to remove a single amino acid from the carboxylic acid (C-terminal) end of a peptide. First demonstrated by Max Bergmann in 1934, it… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bernthsen acridine synthesis | The Bernthsen acridine synthesis is the chemical reaction of a diarylamine heated with a carboxylic acid (or acid anhydride) and zinc chloride to form a 9-substituted acridine. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Betti reaction | The Betti reaction is a chemical addition reaction of aldehydes, primary aromatic amines and phenols producing α-aminobenzylphenols. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Biginelli reaction | The Biginelli reaction is a multiple-component chemical reaction that creates 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones 4 from ethyl acetoacetate 1, an aryl aldehyde (such as benzaldehyde 2), and urea 3. It is … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bingel reaction | The Bingel reaction in fullerene chemistry is a fullerene cyclopropanation reaction to a methanofullerene first discovered by C. Bingel in 1993 with the bromo derivative of diethyl malonate in the pr… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Birch reduction Reduction | The Birch reduction or Metal-Ammonia reduction is an organic reaction that is used to convert arenes to 1,4-cyclohexadienes. The reaction is named after the Australian chemist Arthur Birch and involve… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Birkeland–Eyde process | The Birkeland–Eyde process was one of the competing industrial processes in the beginning of nitrogen-based fertilizer production. It is a multi-step nitrogen fixation reaction that uses electrical ar… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bischler–Möhlau indole synthesis | The Bischler–Möhlau indole synthesis, also often referred to as the Bischler indole synthesis, is a chemical reaction that forms a 2-aryl-indole from an α-bromo-acetophenone and excess aniline; it is … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bischler–Napieralski reaction | The Bischler–Napieralski reaction is an intramolecular electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction that allows for the cyclization of β-arylethylamides or β-arylethylcarbamates. It was first discover… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Blaise ketone synthesis | The Blaise ketone synthesis (named after Edmond Blaise) is the chemical reaction of acid chlorides with organozinc compounds to give ketones.[1][2] | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Blaise reaction | The Blaise reaction is an organic reaction that forms a β-ketoester from the reaction of zinc metal with an α-bromoester and a nitrile.[1][2][3] The reaction was first reported by Edmond Blaise (1872–… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Blanc chloromethylation | The Blanc chloromethylation (also called the Blanc reaction) is the chemical reaction of aromatic rings with formaldehyde and hydrogen chloride to form chloromethyl arenes. The reaction is catalyzed … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Blum–Ittah aziridine synthesis | The Blum–Ittah aziridine synthesis, also known as the Blum–Ittah-Shahak aziridine synthesis or simply the Blum aziridine synthesis is a name reaction of organic chemistry, for the generation of azirid… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bobbitt reaction | The Bobbitt reaction is a name reaction in organic chemistry. It is named after the American chemist James M. Bobbitt. The reaction allows the synthesis of 1-, 4-, and N-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bodroux–Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis | The Bodroux–Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis is a chemical reaction whereby a Grignard reagent is converted to an aldehyde one carbon longer. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Boekelheide reaction | The Boekelheide reaction is a rearrangement of α-picoline-N-oxides to hydroxymethylpyridines. It is named after Virgil Boekelheide who first reported it in 1954. Originally the reaction was carried ou… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Boger pyridine synthesis | The Boger pyridine synthesis is a cycloaddition approach to the formation of pyridines named after its inventor Dale L. Boger, who first reported it in 1981. The reaction is a form of inverse-electron… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bohlmann–Rahtz pyridine synthesis | In organic chemistry, the Bohlmann–Rahtz pyridine synthesis is a reaction that generates substituted pyridines in two steps, first a condensation reaction between an enamine and an ethynylketone to fo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bohn–Schmidt reaction Rearrangement | The Bohn–Schmidt reaction, a named reaction in chemistry, introduces a hydroxy group at an anthraquinone system. The anthraquinone must already have at least one hydroxy group. The reaction was first … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Boord olefin synthesis | The Boord olefin synthesis is an organic reaction forming alkenes from ethers carrying a halogen atom 2 carbons removed from the oxygen atom (β-halo-ethers) using a metal such as magnesium or zinc. T… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Borsche–Drechsel cyclization Cyclization | The Borsche–Drechsel cyclization is a chemical reaction used to synthesize tetrahydrocarbazoles by the acid-catalyzed cyclization of cyclohexanone arylhydrazones. The reaction was first described by E… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bosch reaction | The Bosch reaction is a catalytic chemical reaction between carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen (H2) that produces elemental carbon (C,graphite), water, and a 10% return of invested heat. CO2 is usuall… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Boudouard reaction | The Boudouard reaction, named after Octave Leopold Boudouard, is the redox reaction of a chemical equilibrium mixture of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide at a given temperature. It is the disproport… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bouveault aldehyde synthesis | The Bouveault aldehyde synthesis (also known as the Bouveault reaction) is a one-pot substitution reaction that replaces an alkyl or aryl halide with a formyl group using a N,N-disubstituted formamide… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bouveault–Blanc reduction Reduction | The Bouveault–Blanc reduction is a chemical reaction in which an ester is reduced to primary alcohols using absolute ethanol and sodium metal. It was first reported by Louis Bouveault and Gustave Lou… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Boyland–Sims oxidation Oxidation | The Boyland–Sims oxidation is the chemical reaction of anilines with alkaline potassium persulfate, which after hydrolysis forms ortho-hydroxyl anilines. The reaction is generally performed in water a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bradsher cycloaddition Cycloaddition | The Bradsher cycloaddition reaction, also known as the Bradsher cyclization reaction is a form of the Diels–Alder reaction which involves the [4+2] addition of a common dienophile with a cationic aro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bray–Liebhafsky reaction | The Bray–Liebhafsky reaction is a chemical clock first described by William C. Bray in 1921 and the first oscillating reaction in a stirred homogeneous solution. He investigated the role of the iodate… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Briggs–Rauscher reaction | The Briggs–Rauscher oscillating reaction is one of a small number of known oscillating chemical reactions. It is especially well suited for demonstration purposes because of its visually striking colo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Brook rearrangement Rearrangement | In organic chemistry the Brook rearrangement refers to any [1,n] carbon to oxygen silyl migration. The rearrangement was first observed in the late 1950s by Canadian chemist Adrian Gibbs Brook (1924–2… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bruylants reaction | In organic chemistry, the Bruylants reaction (sometimes misspelled Bruylant) is a substitution reaction in which a Grignard reagent replaces a nitrile on a carbon that also has an amino group (c.f. cy… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bucherer–Bergs reaction | The Bucherer–Bergs reaction is the chemical reaction of carbonyl compounds (aldehydes or ketones), either in combination with potassium cyanide or converted to their cyanohydrin derivative, with ammon… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bucherer carbazole synthesis | The Bucherer carbazole synthesis is a chemical reaction used to synthesize carbazoles from 2-naphthols and aryl hydrazines using sodium bisulfite. The reaction is named after Hans Theodor Bucherer. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bucherer reaction | The Bucherer reaction in organic chemistry is the reversible conversion of a naphthol to a naphthylamine in the presence of ammonia and sodium bisulfite. The reaction is widely used in the synthesis … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Büchner–Curtius–Schlotterbeck reaction Rearrangement | The Buchner–Curtius–Schlotterbeck reaction is the reaction of aldehydes or ketones with aliphatic diazoalkanes to form homologated ketones. It was first described by Eduard Buchner and Theodor Curtius… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Buchner ring expansion | The Buchner ring expansion is a two-step organic C-C bond forming reaction used to access 7-membered rings. The first step involves formation of a carbene from ethyl diazoacetate, which cyclopropanate… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Buchwald–Hartwig amination Cross-coupling | In organic chemistry, the Buchwald–Hartwig amination is a chemical reaction for the synthesis of carbon–nitrogen bonds via the palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions of amines with aryl halides. Altho… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Bunsen reaction | The Bunsen reaction is a chemical reaction that describes water, sulfur dioxide, and iodine reacting to form sulfuric acid and hydrogen iodide: | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling Cross-coupling | The Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling in organic chemistry is a coupling reaction between a terminal alkyne and a haloalkyne catalyzed by a copper(I) salt such as copper(I) bromide and an amine base. The re… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Cadogan–Sundberg indole synthesis | The Cadogan–Sundberg indole synthesis, or simply Cadogan indole synthesis, is a name reaction in organic chemistry that allows for the generation of indoles from o-nitrostyrenes with the use of trialk… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Camps quinoline synthesis | The Camps quinoline synthesis (also known as the Camps cyclization) is a chemical reaction whereby an o-acylaminoacetophenone is transformed into two different hydroxyquinolines (products A and B) usi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Cannizzaro reaction Disproportionation | The Cannizzaro reaction, named after its discoverer Stanislao Cannizzaro, is a chemical reaction which involves the base-induced disproportionation of two molecules of a non-enolizable aldehyde to giv… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Carroll rearrangement Rearrangement | The Carroll rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry and involves the transformation of a β-keto allyl ester into a α-allyl-β-ketocarboxylic acid. This organic reaction is accomp… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Castro–Stephens coupling Cross-coupling | The Castro–Stephens coupling is a cross coupling reaction between a copper(I) acetylide and an aryl halide in pyridine, forming a disubstituted alkyne and a copper(I) halide. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |