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| Robinson–Gabriel synthesis Cyclization | The Robinson–Gabriel synthesis is an organic reaction in which a 2-acylamino-ketone reacts intramolecularly followed by a dehydration to give an oxazole. A cyclodehydrating agent is needed to catalyze… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Rosenmund reduction Reduction | The Rosenmund reduction is a hydrogenation process in which an acyl chloride is selectively reduced to an aldehyde. The reaction was named after Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund, who first reported it in 1918. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Rosenmund–von Braun reaction | The Rosenmund–von Braun synthesis is an organic reaction in which an aryl halide reacts with cuprous cyanide to yield an aryl nitrile. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Roskamp reaction | In organic chemistry, the Roskamp reaction is a name reaction describing the reaction between α-diazoesters (such as ethyl diazoacetate) and aldehydes to form β-ketoesters, often utilizing various Lew… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Rothemund reaction | The Rothemund reaction is a condensation/oxidation process that converts four pyrroles and four aldehydes into a porphyrin. It is based on work by Paul Rothemund, who first reported it in 1936. The me… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Rubottom oxidation Oxidation | The Rubottom oxidation is a useful, high-yielding chemical reaction between silyl enol ethers and peroxyacids to give the corresponding α-hydroxy carbonyl product. The mechanism of the reaction was … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Ruff degradation | Ruff degradation is a reaction used to shorten the open chain forms of monosaccharides. It is functionally the reverse reaction of Kiliani-Fischer synthesis. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sabatier reaction | The Sabatier reaction or Sabatier process produces methane and water from a reaction of hydrogen with carbon dioxide at elevated temperatures (optimally 300–400 °C) and pressures (perhaps 3 megapascal… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Saegusa–Ito oxidation Oxidation | The Saegusa–Ito oxidation is a chemical reaction used in organic chemistry. It was discovered in 1978 by Takeo Saegusa and Yoshihiko Ito as a method to introduce α-β unsaturation in carbonyl compounds… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sakurai reaction | The Sakurai reaction (also known as the Hosomi–Sakurai reaction) is the chemical reaction of carbon electrophiles (such as a ketone shown here) with allyltrimethylsilane catalyzed by strong Lewis acid… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sandmeyer reaction | The Sandmeyer reaction is a chemical reaction used to synthesize aryl halides from aryl diazonium salts using copper salts as reagents or catalysts. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sarett oxidation Oxidation | The Sarett oxidation is an organic reaction that oxidizes primary and secondary alcohols to aldehydes and ketones, respectively, using chromium trioxide and pyridine. Unlike the similar Jones oxidatio… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Saville reaction | The Saville reaction is a chemical reaction in which mercury replaces a nitrosyl from a thiol group. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Schikorr reaction | The Schikorr reaction formally describes the conversion of the iron(II) hydroxide (Fe(OH)2) into iron(II,III) oxide (Fe3O4). This transformation reaction was first studied by Gerhard Schikorr. The glo… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Schmidt reaction Rearrangement | In organic chemistry, the Schmidt reaction is an organic reaction in which an azide reacts with a carbonyl derivative, usually an aldehyde, ketone, or carboxylic acid, under acidic conditions to give … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Schöllkopf method | The Schöllkopf method or Schöllkopf Bis-Lactim Amino Acid Synthesis is a method in organic chemistry for the asymmetric synthesis of chiral amino acids. The method was established in 1981 by Ulrich Sc… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Scholl reaction | The Scholl reaction is a coupling reaction between two arene compounds with the aid of a Lewis acid and a protic acid. It is named after its discoverer, Roland Scholl, a Swiss chemist. | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Schotten–Baumann reaction | The Schotten–Baumann reaction is a method to synthesize amides from amines and acid chlorides: | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Seyferth–Gilbert homologation | The Seyferth–Gilbert homologation is a chemical reaction of an aryl ketone 1 (or aldehyde) with dimethyl (diazomethyl)phosphonate 2 and potassium tert-butoxide to give substituted alkynes 3. Dimethyl … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Shapiro reaction | The Shapiro reaction or tosylhydrazone decomposition is an organic reaction in which a ketone or aldehyde is converted to an alkene through an intermediate hydrazone in the presence of 2 equivalents o… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation | Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (also called the Sharpless bishydroxylation) is the chemical reaction of an alkene with osmium tetroxide in the presence of a chiral quinine ligand to form a vicin… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sharpless epoxidation Oxidation | The Sharpless epoxidation reaction is an enantioselective chemical reaction to prepare 2,3-epoxyalcohols from primary and secondary allylic alcohols. The oxidizing agent is tert-butyl hydroperoxide. … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sharpless oxyamination | The Sharpless oxyamination (often known as Sharpless aminohydroxylation) is the chemical reaction that converts an alkene to a vicinal amino alcohol. The reaction is related to the Sharpless dihydrox… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Shi epoxidation Oxidation | The Shi epoxidation is a chemical reaction, as the asymmetric epoxidation of alkenes with oxone (potassium peroxymonosulfate) and a fructose-derived catalyst (1). This reaction is thought to proceed v… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Shiina macrolactonization | Shiina macrolactonization (or Shiina lactonization) is an organic chemical reaction that synthesizes cyclic compounds by using aromatic carboxylic acid anhydrides as dehydration condensation agents. I… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Simmons–Smith reaction | The Simmons–Smith reaction is an organic cheletropic reaction involving an organozinc carbenoid that reacts with an alkene (or alkyne) to form a cyclopropane. It is named after Howard Ensign Simmons, … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Skattebøl rearrangement Rearrangement | The Skattebøl rearrangement is an organic reaction for converting a geminal dihalo cyclopropane to an allene using an organolithium base. This rearrangement reaction is named after its discoverer, Lar… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Skraup reaction | The Skraup synthesis is a chemical reaction used to synthesize quinolines. It is named after the Czech chemist Zdenko Hans Skraup (1850–1910). In the archetypal Skraup reaction, aniline is heated with… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Smiles rearrangement Rearrangement | In organic chemistry, the Smiles rearrangement is an organic reaction and a rearrangement reaction named after British chemist Samuel Smiles. It is an intramolecular, nucleophilic aromatic substitutio… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Soai reaction | In organic chemistry, the Soai reaction is the alkylation of pyrimidine-5-carbaldehyde with diisopropylzinc. The reaction is autocatalytic and leads to rapidly increasing amounts of the same enantiome… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sommelet–Hauser rearrangement Rearrangement | The Sommelet–Hauser rearrangement (named after M. Sommelet and Charles R. Hauser) is a rearrangement reaction of certain benzyl quaternary ammonium salts. The reagent is sodium amide or another alkali… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sommelet reaction | The Sommelet reaction is an organic reaction in which a benzyl halide is converted to an aldehyde by action of hexamine and water. It is named after the French chemist Marcel Sommelet, who first repor… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Sonogashira coupling Cross-coupling | The Sonogashira reaction is a cross-coupling reaction used in organic synthesis to form carbon–carbon bonds. It employs a palladium catalyst as well as copper co-catalyst to form a carbon–carbon bond … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stahl oxidation Oxidation | The Stahl oxidation is a copper-catalyzed aerobic oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to aldehydes and ketones. Known for its high selectivity and mild reaction conditions, the Stahl oxidation… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Staudinger reaction Reduction | The Staudinger reaction is a chemical reaction of an organic azide with a phosphine or phosphite produces an iminophosphorane. The reaction was discovered by and named after Hermann Staudinger. The r… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Staudinger synthesis Reduction | The Staudinger synthesis, also called the Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition, is a chemical synthesis in which an imine 1 reacts with a ketene 2 through a non-photochemical 2+2 cycloaddition to pro… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Steglich esterification | The Steglich esterification is a variation of an esterification with dicyclohexylcarbodiimide as a coupling reagent and 4-dimethylaminopyridine as a catalyst. The reaction was first described by Wolfg… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stephen aldehyde synthesis | Stephen aldehyde synthesis, a named reaction in chemistry, was invented by Henry Stephen (OBE/MBE). This reaction involves the preparation of aldehydes (R-CHO) from nitriles (R-CN) using tin(II) chlor… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stetter reaction | The Stetter reaction is a reaction used in organic chemistry to form carbon-carbon bonds through a 1,4-addition reaction utilizing a nucleophilic catalyst. While the related 1,2-addition reaction, the… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stevens rearrangement Rearrangement | The Stevens rearrangement in organic chemistry is an organic reaction converting quaternary ammonium salts and sulfonium salts to the corresponding amines or sulfides in presence of a strong base in a… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stickland fermentation | Stickland fermentation or The Stickland Reaction is the name for a chemical reaction that involves the coupled oxidation and reduction of amino acids to organic acids. The electron donor amino acid i… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stieglitz rearrangement Rearrangement | The Stieglitz rearrangement is a rearrangement reaction in organic chemistry which is named after the American chemist Julius Stieglitz (1867–1937) and was first investigated by him and Paul Nicholas … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stille reaction Cross-coupling | The Stille reaction is a chemical reaction widely used in organic synthesis. The reaction involves the coupling of two organic groups, one of which is carried as an organotin compound (also known as o… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stobbe condensation Condensation | The Stobbe condensation entails the reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with an ester of succinic acid to generate alkylidene succinic acid or related derivatives. The reaction consumes one equivalent … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stollé synthesis | The Stollé synthesis is a series of chemical reactions that produce oxindoles from anilines and α-haloacid chlorides (or oxalyl chloride). | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Stork enamine alkylation | The Stork enamine alkylation involves the addition of an enamine to a Michael acceptor (e.g., an α,β -unsaturated carbonyl compound) or other electrophile to give an alkylated iminium product, which i… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Strecker amino acid synthesis | The Strecker amino acid synthesis, also known simply as the Strecker synthesis, is a method for the synthesis of amino acids by the reaction of an aldehyde with cyanide in the presence of ammonia. Th… | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Strecker degradation | The Strecker degradation is a chemical reaction which converts an α-amino acid into an aldehyde containing the side chain, by way of an imine intermediate. It is named after Adolph Strecker, a German … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Suzuki reaction Cross-coupling | The Suzuki reaction or Suzuki coupling is an organic reaction that uses a palladium complex catalyst to cross-couple a boronic acid to an organohalide. It was first published in 1979 by Akira Suzuki, … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions | |
| Swarts fluorination | Swarts fluorination is a process whereby the chlorine atoms in a compound – generally an organic compound, but experiments have been performed using silanes – are replaced with fluorine, by treatment … | Wikipedia: Category:Name reactions |