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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

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