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| Jacobsen rearrangement Rearrangement | The Jacobsen rearrangement is a chemical reaction, commonly described as the migration of an alkyl group in a sulfonic acid derived from a polyalkyl- or polyhalobenzene: | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Jaffe reaction | The Jaffe reaction is a colorimetric method used in clinical chemistry to determine creatinine levels in blood and urine. In 1886, Max Jaffe (1841–1911) wrote about its basic principles in the paper Ü… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Japp–Klingemann reaction | The Japp–Klingemann reaction is a chemical reaction used to synthesize hydrazones from β-keto-acids (or β-keto-esters) and aryl diazonium salts. The reaction is named after the chemists Francis Robert… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Japp–Maitland condensation Condensation | The Japp–Maitland condensation is an organic reaction and a type of Aldol reaction and a tandem reaction. In a reaction between the ketone 3-pentanone and the aldehyde benzaldehyde catalyzed by base t… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Jocic reaction | In organic chemistry, the Jocic reaction, also called the Jocic–Reeve reaction (named after Zivojin Jocic and Wilkins Reeve) is a name reaction that generates α-substituted carboxylic acids from trich… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction | The Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction (sometimes referred to as the Corey–Chaykovsky reaction or CCR) is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of epoxides, aziridines, and cy… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Jones oxidation Oxidation | The Jones oxidation is an organic reaction for the oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to carboxylic acids and ketones, respectively. It is named after its discoverer, Sir Ewart Jones. The rea… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Juliá–Colonna epoxidation Oxidation | The Juliá–Colonna epoxidation is an asymmetric poly-leucine catalyzed nucleophilic epoxidation of electron deficient olefins in a triphasic system. The reaction was reported by Sebastian Juliá at the … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Julia olefination Olefination | The Julia olefination (also known as the Julia–Lythgoe olefination) is the chemical reaction used in organic chemistry of phenyl sulfones (1) with aldehydes (or ketones) to give alkenes (olefins)(3) a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kabachnik–Fields reaction | In organophosphorus chemistry, the Kabachnik–Fields reaction is a three-component organic reaction forming α-aminomethylphosphonates from an amine, a carbonyl compound, and a dialkyl phosphonate, (RO)… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kauffmann olefination Olefination | The Kauffmann olefination is a chemical reaction to convert aldehydes and ketones to olefins with a terminal methylene group. This reaction was discovered by the German chemist Thomas Kauffmann and is… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Keck asymmetric allylation | In organic chemistry, the Keck asymmetric allylation is a chemical reaction that involves the nucleophilic addition of an allyl group to an aldehyde. The catalyst is a chiral complex that contains tit… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Ketonic decarboxylation | Ketonic decarboxylation (also known as decarboxylative ketonization) is a type of organic reaction involving decarboxylation, converting two equivalents of a carboxylic acid (R−C(=O)OH) to a symmetric… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kharasch addition Addition | The Kharasch addition is an organic reaction and a metal-catalysed free radical addition of CXCl3 compounds (X = Cl, Br, H) to alkenes. The reaction is used to append trichloromethyl or dichloromethy… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kharasch–Sosnovsky reaction | The Kharasch–Sosnovsky reaction is a method that involves using a copper or cobalt salt as a catalyst to oxidize olefins at the allylic position, subsequently condensing a peroxy ester (e.g. tert-Buty… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kiliani–Fischer synthesis | The Kiliani–Fischer synthesis, named for German chemists Heinrich Kiliani and Emil Fischer, is a method for synthesizing monosaccharides. It proceeds via synthesis and hydrolysis of a cyanohydrin, fo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kinnear–Perren reaction | In organophosphorus chemistry, the Kinnear–Perren reaction (sometimes the Clay-Kinnear-Perren reaction) is used to prepare alkylphosphonyl dichlorides (RP(O)Cl2) and alkylphosphonate esters (RP(O)(OR'… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kirsanov reaction | The Kirsanov reaction is a method for the synthesis of certain organophosphorus compounds. In this reaction a tertiary phosphine is combined with a halogen and then an amine to give the iminophosphin… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Knoevenagel condensation Condensation | In organic chemistry, the Knoevenagel condensation (pronounced [ˈknøːvənaːɡl̩]) reaction is a type of chemical reaction named after German chemist Emil Knoevenagel. It is a modification of the aldol c… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Knorr pyrrole synthesis | The Knorr pyrrole synthesis is a widely used chemical reaction that synthesizes substituted pyrroles (3). The method involves the reaction of an α-amino-ketone (1) and a compound containing an electro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Knorr quinoline synthesis | The Knorr quinoline synthesis is an intramolecular organic reaction converting a β-ketoanilide to a 2-hydroxyquinoline using sulfuric acid. This reaction was first described by Ludwig Knorr (1859–1921… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kochi reaction | The Kochi reaction is an organic reaction for the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids to alkyl halides with lead(IV) acetate and a lithium halide. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Koch reaction | The Koch reaction is an organic reaction for the synthesis of tertiary carboxylic acids from alcohols or alkenes and carbon monoxide. Some commonly industrially produced Koch acids include pivalic aci… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Koenigs–Knorr reaction | The Koenigs–Knorr reaction is the substitution reaction of a glycosyl halide with an alcohol to give a glycoside. It is one of the oldest glycosylation reactions. It is named after Wilhelm Koenigs (18… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kolbe electrolysis | The Kolbe electrolysis or Kolbe reaction is an organic reaction named after Hermann Kolbe. The Kolbe reaction is formally a decarboxylative dimerisation of two carboxylic acids (or carboxylate ions). … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kolbe nitrile synthesis | The Kolbe nitrile synthesis, named for Hermann Kolbe, is a method for the preparation of alkyl nitriles by reaction of the corresponding alkyl halide with a metal cyanide. A side product for this reac… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kolbe–Schmitt reaction | The Kolbe–Schmitt reaction or Kolbe process (named after Hermann Kolbe and Rudolf Schmitt) is a carboxylation chemical reaction that proceeds by treating phenol with sodium hydroxide to form sodium ph… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement Rearrangement | The Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry in which a primary or secondary organic peroxide is converted to the corresponding ketone and alcohol under acid or… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kornblum oxidation Oxidation | The Kornblum oxidation, named after Nathan Kornblum, is an organic oxidation reaction that converts alkyl halides and tosylates into carbonyl compounds. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kostanecki acylation | The Kostanecki acylation is a method used in organic synthesis to form chromones or coumarins by acylation of O-hydroxyaryl ketones with aliphatic acid anhydrides, followed by cyclization. If benzoic … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kowalski ester homologation | The Kowalski ester homologation is a chemical reaction for the homologation of esters. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Krapcho decarboxylation | Krapcho decarboxylation is a chemical reaction used to manipulate certain organic esters. This reaction applies to esters with a beta electron-withdrawing group (EWG). | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kröhnke pyridine synthesis | Kröhnke pyridine synthesis is a reaction in organic synthesis that occurs between α-pyridinium methyl ketone salts and α, β-unsaturated carbonyl compounds and is used to generate highly functionalized… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kulinkovich reaction | The Kulinkovich reaction describes the organic synthesis of substituted cyclopropanols through reaction of esters with dialkyldialkoxytitanium reagents, which are generated in situ from Grignard rea… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Kumada coupling Cross-coupling | In organic chemistry, the Kumada coupling is a type of cross coupling reaction, useful for generating carbon–carbon bonds by the reaction of a Grignard reagent and an organic halide. The procedure use… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Larock indole synthesis | The Larock indole synthesis is a heteroannulation reaction that uses palladium as a catalyst to synthesize indoles from an ortho-iodoaniline and a disubstituted alkyne. It is also known as Larock hete… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Leblanc process | The Leblanc process was an early industrial process for making soda ash (sodium carbonate) used throughout the 19th century, named after its inventor, Nicolas Leblanc. It involved two stages: making … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lehmstedt–Tanasescu reaction | The Lehmstedt–Tanasescu reaction is a method in organic chemistry for the organic synthesis of acridone derivatives (3) from a 2-nitrobenzaldehyde (1) and an arene compound (2): | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Leimgruber–Batcho indole synthesis | The Leimgruber–Batcho indole synthesis is a series of organic reactions that produce indoles from o-nitrotoluenes 1.[1][2][3] The first step is the formation of an enamine 2 using N,N-dimethylformamid… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lemieux–Johnson oxidation Oxidation | The Lemieux–Johnson or Malaprade–Lemieux–Johnson oxidation is a chemical reaction in which an olefin undergoes oxidative cleavage to form two aldehyde or ketone units. The reaction is named after its … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Letts nitrile synthesis | The Letts nitrile synthesis is a chemical reaction of aromatic carboxylic acids with metal thiocyanates to form nitriles. The reaction includes the loss of carbon dioxide and potassium hydrosulfide. T… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Leuckart reaction | The Leuckart reaction is the chemical reaction that converts aldehydes or ketones to amines. The reaction is an example of reductive amination. The reaction, named after Rudolf Leuckart, uses either a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Leuckart thiophenol reaction | The Leuckart thiophenol reaction is the decomposition of a diazoxanthate, by gentle warming in a slightly acidic cuprous medium, to its corresponding aryl xanthates which give aryl thiols on alkaline … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Liebeskind–Srogl coupling Cross-coupling | The Liebeskind–Srogl coupling reaction is an organic reaction forming a new carbon–carbon bond from a thioester and a boronic acid using a metal catalyst. It is a cross-coupling reaction. This reactio… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lindgren oxidation Oxidation | Lindgren oxidation is a selective method for oxidizing aldehydes to carboxylic acids. The reaction is named after Bengt O. Lindgren. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lobry de Bruyn–Van Ekenstein transformation | In carbohydrate chemistry, the Lobry de Bruyn–Van Ekenstein transformation also known as the Lobry de Bruyn–Alberda van Ekenstein transformation is the base or acid catalyzed transformation of an aldo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lombardo methylenation | In organic chemistry, the Lombardo methylenation is a name reaction that allows for the methylenation of carbonyl compounds with the use of Lombardo's reagent, which is a mix of zinc, dibromomethane, … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lossen rearrangement Rearrangement | The Lossen rearrangement is the conversion of an acyl hydroxamate to an isocyanate and carboxylic acid side product. The isocyanate can be used further to generate ureas in the presence of amines or g… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Luche reduction Reduction | Luche reduction is the selective organic reduction of α,β-unsaturated ketones to allylic alcohols. The active reductant is described as "cerium borohydride", which is generated in situ from NaBH4 and … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Lumière–Barbier method Organometallic addition | The Lumière–Barbier method is a method of acetylating aromatic amines in aqueous solutions. Illustrative is the acetylation of aniline. First aniline is dissolved in water using one equivalent of hyd… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |