Browse · Reactions
Reactions
503 reactions imported from Wikipedia named-reactions and Organic Syntheses archives. Filter by source or search by name + summary.
Results
| Equation | Name | Summary | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madelung synthesis | In organic chemistry, Madelung synthesis is a chemical reaction that produces (substituted or unsubstituted) indoles by the intramolecular cyclization of N-phenylamides using strong base at high tempe… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Maillard reaction | The Maillard reaction ( MY-ar; French: [majaʁ]) is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars to create melanoidins, the compounds that give browned food its distinctive flavor. Seare… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Malaprade reaction | In organic chemistry, the Malaprade reaction or Malaprade oxidation is a reaction that converts vicinal diols by periodic acid or a periodate salt to give a pair of carbonyl derivatives. The reaction … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mallory reaction | In organic chemistry, the Mallory reaction is a photochemical-cyclization–elimination reaction of diaryl-ethylene structures to form phenanthrenes and other polycyclic form polycyclic aromatic hydroca… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mannich reaction Addition | In organic chemistry, the Mannich reaction is a three-component organic reaction that involves the amino alkylation of the α-position of a ketone or aldehyde with an aldehyde and a nullary, primary, o… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Marker degradation | The Marker degradation is a three-step synthetic route in steroid chemistry developed by American chemist Russell Earl Marker in 1938–1940. It is used for the production of cortisone and mammalian sex… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Markó–Lam deoxygenation | The Markó–Lam deoxygenation is an organic chemistry reaction where the hydroxy functional group in an organic compound is replaced by a hydrogen atom to give an alkyl group. The Markó-Lam reaction is … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Marschalk reaction | The Marschalk reaction in chemistry is the sodium dithionite promoted reaction of a phenolic anthraquinone with an aldehyde to yield a substituted phenolic anthraquinone after the addition of acid. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Marsh test | The Marsh test is a highly sensitive method in the detection of arsenic, especially useful in the field of forensic toxicology when arsenic was used as a poison. It was developed by the chemist James … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Martinet dioxindole synthesis | The Martinet dioxindole synthesis was first reported in 1913 by J. Martinet. It is a chemical reaction in which a primary or secondary aniline or substituted aromatic amine is condensed with ethyl or … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| McCormack reaction | The McCormack reaction is a method for the synthesis of organophosphorus compounds. In this reaction, a 1,3-diene and a source of R2P+ are combined to give phospholenium cation. The reaction is named … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| McFadyen–Stevens reaction | The McFadyen–Stevens reaction is a chemical reaction best described as a base-catalyzed thermal decomposition of acylsulfonylhydrazides to aldehydes.[1][2] | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| McLafferty rearrangement Rearrangement | The McLafferty rearrangement is a fragmentation reaction observed in mass spectrometry of organic molecules in which the parent radical cation splits into daughter radical cation and neutral spin-pair… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| McMurry reaction | The McMurry reaction is an organic reaction in which two ketone or aldehyde groups are coupled to form an alkene using a titanium chloride compound such as titanium(III) chloride and a reducing agent.… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Meerwein arylation | The Meerwein arylation is an organic reaction involving the addition of an aryl diazonium salt (ArN2X) to an electron-poor alkene usually supported by a metal salt. The reaction product is an alkylate… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction Reduction | The Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley (MPV) reduction in organic chemistry is the reduction of ketones and aldehydes to their corresponding alcohols utilizing aluminium alkoxide catalysis in the presence of a … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Meisenheimer rearrangement Rearrangement | In organic chemistry, the Meisenheimer rearrangement is the conversion of a tertiary amine oxide to a alkoxylamine. The reaction is most common for benzylic or allylic amine oxides. The reaction is … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Menke nitration | The Menke nitration is the nitration of electron rich aromatic compounds with cupric nitrate and acetic anhydride. The reaction introduces the nitro group predominantly in the ortho position to the a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Menshutkin reaction | In organic chemistry, the Menshutkin reaction converts a tertiary amine into a quaternary ammonium salt by reaction with an alkyl halide. Similar reactions occur when tertiary phosphines are treated … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Meyer–Schuster rearrangement Rearrangement | The Meyer–Schuster rearrangement is the chemical reaction described as an acid-catalyzed rearrangement of secondary and tertiary propargyl alcohols to α,β-unsaturated ketones if the alkyne group is in… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Meyers synthesis | The Meyers synthesis is an organic synthesis for the preparation of unsymmetrical aldehydes via hydrolysis of an oxazine. The reaction is named after the American chemist Albert Meyers. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Michael addition reaction Addition | In organic chemistry, the Michael reaction or Michael 1,4 addition is a reaction between a Michael donor (an enolate or other nucleophile) and a Michael acceptor (usually an α,β-unsaturated carbonyl) … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction Addition | The Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction (also called the Arbuzov reaction) is the chemical reaction of a trivalent phosphorus ester with an alkyl halide to form a pentavalent phosphorus species and another alk… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Michaelis–Becker reaction Addition | The Michaelis–Becker reaction is the reaction of a hydrogen (thio)phosphonate with a base, followed by a nucleophilic substitution of phosphorus on a haloalkane, to give an alkyl (thio)phosphonate. Yi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Milas hydroxylation | The Milas hydroxylation is an organic reaction converting an alkene to a vicinal diol, and was developed by Nicholas A. Milas in the 1930s. The cis-diol is formed by reaction of alkenes with hydrogen … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Minisci reaction | The Minisci reaction (Italian: [miˈniʃʃi]) is a named reaction in organic chemistry. It is a nucleophilic radical substitution to an electron deficient aromatic compound, most commonly the introductio… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mislow–Evans rearrangement Rearrangement | The Mislow–Evans rearrangement is a name reaction in organic chemistry. It is named after Kurt Mislow who reported the prototypical reaction in 1966, and David A. Evans who published further developme… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mitsunobu reaction Substitution | The Mitsunobu reaction is an organic reaction that converts an alcohol into a variety of functional groups, such as an ester, using triphenylphosphine and an azodicarboxylate such as diethyl azodicarb… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Miyaura borylation | Miyaura borylation, also known as the Miyaura borylation reaction, is a named reaction in organic chemistry that allows for the generation of boronates from vinyl or aryl halides with the cross-coupli… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mozingo reduction Reduction | The Mozingo reduction, also known as Mozingo reaction or thioketal reduction, is a chemical reaction capable of fully reducing a ketone or aldehyde to the corresponding alkane via a dithioacetal. The … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mukaiyama aldol addition Condensation | In organic chemistry, the Mukaiyama aldol addition is an organic reaction and a type of aldol reaction between a silyl enol ether (R2C=CR−O−Si(CH3)3) and an aldehyde (R−CH=O) or formate (R−O−CH=O). Th… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mukaiyama hydration Condensation | The Mukaiyama hydration is an organic reaction involving formal addition of an equivalent of water across an olefin by the action of catalytic bis(acetylacetonato)cobalt(II) complex, phenylsilane and … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Mumm rearrangement Rearrangement | The Mumm rearrangement is an organic reaction and a rearrangement reaction. It describes a 1,3(O-N) acyl transfer of an acyl imidate or isoimide group to an imide. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Murahashi coupling Cross-coupling | The Murahashi Coupling is a cross coupling reaction. The coupling partners are organolithiums and organic halides. Transition metal catalysts are required. The reaction was first reported by Shun-Ich… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Myers allene synthesis | In organic chemistry, the Myers allene synthesis is a chemical reaction that converts a propargyl alcohol into an allene by way of an arenesulfonylhydrazine as a key intermediate. This name reaction i… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Myers deoxygenation | In organic chemistry, the Myers deoxygenation reaction is an organic redox reaction that reduces an alcohol into an alkyl position by way of an arenesulfonylhydrazine as a key intermediate. This name … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Narasaka–Prasad reduction Reduction | The Narasaka–Prasad reduction, sometimes simply called Narasaka reduction, is a diastereoselective reduction of β-hydroxy ketones to the corresponding syn-dialcohols. The reaction employs a boron chel… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nazarov cyclization Cyclization | The Nazarov cyclization, also known as the Nazarov reaction, is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry for the synthesis of cyclopentenones. The reaction is typically divided into classical and… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Neber rearrangement Rearrangement | The Neber rearrangement is an organic reaction in which a ketoxime is converted into an alpha-aminoketone via a rearrangement reaction. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nef isocyanide reaction | The Nef isocyanide reaction is an addition reaction that takes place between isocyanides and acyl chlorides to form imidoyl chloride products, a process first discovered by John Ulrich Nef. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nef reaction | In organic chemistry, the Nef reaction is an organic reaction describing the acid hydrolysis of a salt of a primary or secondary nitroalkane (R−NO2) to an aldehyde (R−CH=O) or a ketone (R2C=O) and nit… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nef synthesis | In organic chemistry, Nef synthesis is the addition of sodium acetylides to aldehydes and ketones to yield propargyl alcohols. It is named for John Ulric Nef, who discovered the reaction in 1899. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Negishi coupling Cross-coupling | The Negishi coupling is a widely employed transition metal catalyzed cross-coupling reaction. The reaction couples organic halides or triflates with organozinc compounds, forming carbon–carbon bonds … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nenitzescu indole synthesis | The Nenitzescu indole synthesis is a chemical reaction that forms 5-hydroxyindole derivatives from benzoquinone and β-aminocrotonic esters. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Newman–Kwart rearrangement Rearrangement | The Newman–Kwart rearrangement is a type of rearrangement reaction in which the aryl group of an O-aryl thiocarbamate, ArOC(=S)NMe2, migrates from the oxygen atom to the sulfur atom, forming an S-aryl… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nicholas reaction | The Nicholas reaction is an organic reaction where a dicobalt octacarbonyl-stabilized propargylic cation is reacted with a nucleophile. Oxidative demetallation gives the desired alkylated alkyne. It… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Niementowski quinazoline synthesis | The Niementowski quinazoline synthesis is the chemical reaction of anthranilic acids with amides to form 4-oxo-3,4-dihydroquinazolines (3H-quinazolin-4-ones).[1][2][3] | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Niementowski quinoline synthesis | The Niementowski quinoline synthesis is the chemical reaction of anthranilic acids and ketones (or aldehydes) to form γ-hydroxyquinoline derivatives. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nierenstein reaction | The Nierenstein reaction is an organic reaction describing the conversion of an acid chloride into a haloketone with diazomethane. It is an insertion reaction in that the methylene group from the diaz… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Nitro-Mannich reaction Addition | The nitro-Mannich reaction (or aza-Henry reaction) is the nucleophilic addition of a nitroalkane (or the corresponding nitronate anion) to an imine, resulting in the formation of a beta-nitroamine. Wi… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |