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1. Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
   
   
2. Barbier reaction
   
   
3. **Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
   
   
4. Baylis-Hillman reaction
   
   
5. **Beckmann rearrangement
   
   
6. Bergman cyclization
   
   
7. Birch reduction
   
   
8. Bischler-Napieralski isoquinoline synthesis
   
   
9. Chan rearrangement
   
   
10. Chichibabin reaction
    
    
11. Claisen condensation
    
    
12. Claisen rearrangement (traditional)
    
    
13. Claisen rearrangement (Eschenmoser variant or Eschenmoser-Claisen)
    
    
14. Claisen rearrangement (Johnson variant or ortho ester variant)
    
    
15. oxy-Cope rearrangement
    
    
16. Corey-Winter reaction
    
    
17. Curtius rearrangement
    
    
18. Danishefsky's diene
    
    
19. **Darzens condensation
    
    
20. **Demjanov rearrangement
    
    
21. Dess Martin periodinane oxidation
    
    
22. **Dieckmann condensation
    
    
23. **Diels-Alder reaction
    
    
24. **Favorskii rearrangement
    
    
25. Fétizon's reagent
    
    
26. carbon-Ferrier rearrangement
    
    
27. Finkelstein reaction
    
    
28. Fisher indole reaction
    
    
29. **Fleming-Tamao oxidation
    
    
30. Friedel Crafts acylation
    
    
31. Friedel Crafts alkylation
    
    
32. **Fries rearrangement
    
    
33. **Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement
    
    
34. **Gabriel synthesis
    
    
35. Garner aldehyde
    
    
36. Glaser reaction
    
    
37. **Grignard reaction
    
    
38. **Grob fragmentation
    
    
39. Haller-Bauer reaction
    
    
40. Heck reaction
    
    
41. Henry reaction
    
    
42. Hofmann elimination
    
    
43. Hofmann rearrangement
    
    
44. Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons olefination
    
    
45. Jones oxidation
    
    
46. **Julia epoxidation
    
    
47. Keck allylation
    
    
48. Knoevenagel condensation
    
    
49. **Kulinkovich reaction
    
    
50. **Luche reduction
    
    
51. Majetich cyclobutane annulation
    
    
52. **McMurry coupling
    
    
53. Michael addition
    
    
54. Mitsunobu reaction
    
    
55. Mosher's acid - determine enantiomeric composition
    
    
56. Nazarov cyclization
    
    
57. Neber reaction
    
    
58. **Nysted reagent (olefination of carbonyls)
    
    
59. Parikh-Doering oxidation
    
    
60. Paterno-Buchi cyclization
    
    
61. Pauson-Khand reaction
    
    
62. Pearlman's catalyst
    
    
63. **Payne rearrangement
    
    
64. **Pechmann condensation
    
    
65. **Peterson olefination
    
    
66. **Pictet-Spengler Cyclization
    
    
67. **Ramberg-Bäcklund rearrangement
    
    
68. Raney nickel
    
    
69. **Reformatsky reaction
    
    
70. **Robinson annulation
    
    
71. Roush coupling
    
    
72. **Schmidt reaction
    
    
73. Schwartz reagent
    
    
74. Seyferth-Gilbert homologation
    
    
75. Shapiro reaction
    
    
76. Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
    
    
77. Simmons-Smith reaction
    
    
78. Sonogashira coupling
    
    
79. Stevens rearrangement
    
    
80. Stille coupling
    
    
81. Stobbe condensation
    
    
82. **Suzuki coupling
    
    
83. Swern oxidation
    
    
84. Tebbe reagent
    
    
85. **Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement
    
    
86. Tishchenko reaction
    
    
87. **Ugi condensation
    
    
88. Vilsmeier formylation
    
    
89. Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
    
    
90. **Willgerodt-Kindler reaction
    
    
91. Wilkinson's catalyst
    
    
92. Wittig olefination
    
    
93. Wittig rearrangement ([2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement)
    
    
94. Wolf-Kishner reduction
    
    
95. Zimmerman-Traxler transition state model
    
    

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