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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
BORANES IN FUNCTIONALIZATION OF DIENES TO CYCLIC KETONES: BICYCLO[3.3.1]NONAN-9-ONE Preparation of BORANES IN FUNCTIONALIZATION OF DIENES TO CYCLIC KETONES: BICYCLO[3.3.1]NONAN-9-ONE. Submitted by Bruce A. Carlson1 and Herbert C. Brown2. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.058.0024. Organic Syntheses
BORANES IN FUNCTIONALIZATION OF OLEFINS TO AMINES: 3-PINANAMINE (Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptan-3-amine, 2,6,6-trimethyl-) Preparation of Bicyclo[3.1.1]heptan-3-amine, 2,6,6-trimethyl-. Submitted by Michael W. Rathke1 and Alan A. Millard. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.058.0032. Organic Syntheses
BORIC ACID CATALYZED AMIDE FORMATION FROM CARBOXYLIC ACIDS AND AMINES: N-BENZYL-4-PHENYLBUTYRAMIDE ((Benzenebutanamide, N-(phenylmethyl)-)) Preparation of (Benzenebutanamide, N-(phenylmethyl)-). Submitted by Pingwah Tang1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.081.0262. Organic Syntheses
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
B-PROTECTED HALOBORONIC ACIDS FOR ITERATIVE CROSS-COUPLING Cross-coupling Preparation of B-PROTECTED HALOBORONIC ACIDS FOR ITERATIVE CROSS-COUPLING. Submitted by Steven G. Ballmer, Eric P. Gillis, and Martin D. Burke1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.086.0344. Organic Syntheses
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
BROMAL Preparation of BROMAL. Submitted by F. A. Long and J. W. Howard. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.017.0018. Organic Syntheses
BROMOACETAL (Acetaldehyde, bromo-, diethyl acetal) Preparation of Acetaldehyde, bromo-, diethyl acetal. Submitted by S. M. McElvain and D. Kundiger. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.023.0008. Organic Syntheses
BROMOACETONE (2-Propanone, 1-bromo-) Preparation of 2-Propanone, 1-bromo-. Submitted by P. A. Levene. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.010.0012. Organic Syntheses
BROMOCYCLOPROPANE (Cyclopropane, bromo-) Preparation of Cyclopropane, bromo-. Submitted by John S. Meek and David T. Osuga1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.043.0009. Organic Syntheses
BROMOFLUORINATION OF ALKENES: 1-BROMO-2-FLUORO-2-PHENYLPROPANE (Benzene, (2-bromo-1-fluoro-1-methylethyl) Preparation of Benzene, (2-bromo-1-fluoro-1-methylethyl. Submitted by Günter Haufe1 , Gerard Alvernhe2 , André Laurent2 , Thomas Ernet1 , Olav Goj1 , Stefan Kröger1 , and Andreas Sattler1. DOI: 10.152… Organic Syntheses
BROMOHYDRINS FROM ALKENES AND N-BROMOSUCCINIMIDE IN DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE: erythro-2-BROMO-1,2-DIPHENYLETHANOL (Ethanol, 2-bromo-1,2-diphenyl-, erythro-) Preparation of Ethanol, 2-bromo-1,2-diphenyl-, erythro-. Submitted by A. W. Langman and D. R. Dalton1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.059.0016. Organic Syntheses
BROMOMESITYLENE (Mesitylene, 2-bromo-) Preparation of Mesitylene, 2-bromo-. Submitted by Lee Irvin Smith. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.011.0024. Organic Syntheses
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
BUTYRCHLORAL (Butyraldehyde, 2,2,3-trichloro-) Preparation of Butyraldehyde, 2,2,3-trichloro-. Submitted by Gus A. Ropp, W. E. Craig, and Vernon Raaen1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.033.0015. Organic Syntheses
BUTYROIN (4-Octanone, 5-hydroxy-) Preparation of 4-Octanone, 5-hydroxy-. Submitted by John M. Snell and S. M. McElvain. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.013.0024. Organic Syntheses
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
CAMPHORQUINONE AND CAMPHORQUINONE MONOXIME (Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3-dione, 1,7,7-trimethyl-, (1R)- and Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, 1,7,7-trimethyl-3-oxime, (1R)-) Preparation of Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2,3-dione, 1,7,7-trimethyl-, (1R)- and Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, 1,7,7-trimethyl-3-oxime, (1R)-. Submitted by James D. White, Duncan J. Wardrop, and Kurt F. Sund… Organic Syntheses
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 disproportionation: 2 benzaldehyde → benzyl alcohol + sodium benzoate Scale Disproportionation Textbook redox disproportionation of an α-H-free aldehyde. Concentrated NaOH drives hydride transfer between two benzaldehyde molecules: one is reduced to benzyl alcohol, the other oxidised to sodium … Cannizzaro 1853
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
CARBENE GENERATION BY α-ELIMINATION WITH LITHIUM 2,2,6,6-TETRAMETHYLPIPERIDIDE: 1-ETHOXY-2-p-TOLYLCYCLOPROPANE (Benzene, 1-(2-ethoxycyclopropyl)-4-methyl) Elimination Preparation of Benzene, 1-(2-ethoxycyclopropyl)-4-methyl. Submitted by Charles M. Dougherty1 and Roy A. Olofson2. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.058.0037. Organic Syntheses
CARBOBENZOXY CHLORIDE AND DERIVATIVES (Formic acid, chloro-, benzyl ester) Preparation of Formic acid, chloro-, benzyl ester. Submitted by H. E. Carter, R. L. Frank, and H. W. Johnston. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.023.0013. Organic Syntheses
CARBONYL CYANIDE (Propanedinitrile, oxo-) Preparation of Propanedinitrile, oxo-. Submitted by E. L. Martin1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.051.0070. Organic Syntheses
CARBOXYLATION OF AROMATIC COMPOUNDS: FERROCENECARBOXYLIC ACID (Ferrocene, carboxy-) Preparation of Ferrocene, carboxy-. Submitted by Perry C. Reeves1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.056.0028. Organic Syntheses
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS FROM THE OXIDATION OF TERMINAL ALKENES BY PERMANGANATE: NONADECANOIC ACID Oxidation Preparation of CARBOXYLIC ACIDS FROM THE OXIDATION OF TERMINAL ALKENES BY PERMANGANATE: NONADECANOIC ACID. Submitted by Donald G. Lee, Shannon E. Lamb, and Victor S. Chang1. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.060.0… Organic Syntheses
CARBOXYMETHOXYLAMINE HEMIHYDROCHLORIDE (Acetic acid, aminoöxy-, hydrochloride) Preparation of Acetic acid, aminoöxy-, hydrochloride. Submitted by H. S. Anker and H. T. Clarke. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.027.0015. Organic Syntheses
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
CASEIN Preparation of CASEIN. Submitted by E. J. Cohn and J. L. Hendry. DOI: 10.15227/orgsyn.010.0016. Organic Syntheses
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

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