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0-9

* 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition

A

* Abramovitch-Shapiro tryptamine synthesis
* Acetoacetic ester condensation
* Achmatowicz reaction
* Acyloin condensation
* Adams catalyst
* Adkins catalyst
* Adkins-Peterson reaction
* Akabori amino acid reaction
* Alder ene reaction
* Alder-Stein rules
* Aldol addition
* Aldol condensation
* Algar-Flynn-Oyamada reaction
* Allan-Robinson reaction
* Allylic rearrangement
* Amadori rearrangement
* Angeli-Rimini reaction
* Andrussov oxidation
* Appel reaction
* Arbuzov reaction, Arbusow reaction
* Arens-van Dorp synthesis, Isler modification
* Arndt-Eistert synthesis
* Auwers synthesis
* Azo coupling

B

* Baeyer-Drewson indigo synthesis
* Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
* Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement
* Bakeland process (Bakelite)
* Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement
* Baker-Venkataraman transformation
* Bally-Scholl synthesis
* Balz-Schiemann reaction
* Bamberger rearrangement
* Bamberger triazine synthesis
* Bamford-Stevens reaction
* Barbier-Wieland degradation
* Bardhan-Senguph phenanthrene synthesis
* Bartoli indole synthesis
* Bartoli reaction
* Barton reaction
* Barton-Kellogg reaction
* Barton-McCombie reaction, Barton deoxygenation
* Baudisch reaction
* Bayer test
* Baylis-Hillman reaction
* Bechamp reaction
* Bechamp reduction
* Beckmann fragmentation
* Beckmann rearrangement
* Bellus-Claisen rearrangement
* Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
* Benary reaction
* Benzidine rearrangement
* Benzilic acid rearrangement
* Benzoin condensation
* Bergman cyclization
* Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis
* Bergmann degradation
* Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method
* Bernthsen acridine synthesis
* Bestmann's reagent
* Betti reaction
* Biginelli pyrimidine synthesis
* Biginelli reaction
* Birch reduction
* Bischler-Möhlau indole synthesis
* Bischler-Napieralski reaction
* Blaise ketone synthesis
* Blaise reaction
* Blanc reaction
* Blanc chloromethylation
* Bodroux reaction
* Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis
* Bogert-Cook synthesis
* Bohn-Schmidt reaction
* Boord olefin synthesis
* Borodin reaction
* Borsche-Drechsel cyclization
* Bosch-Meiser urea process
* Bouveault aldehyde synthesis
* Bouveault-Blanc reduction
* Boyland-Sims oxidation
* Boyer Reaction
* Bredt's rule
* Brown hydroboration
* Bucherer carbazole synthesis
* Bucherer reaction
* Bucherer–Bergs reaction
* Buchner ring enlargement
* Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck reaction
* Buchwald-Hartwig amination
* Bunnett reaction

C

* Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling
* Camps quinoline synthesis
* Cannizzaro reaction
* Carroll reaction
* Catalytic reforming
* CBS reduction
* Chan-Lam coupling
* Chapman rearrangement
* Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
* Chichibabin reaction
* Chugaev elimination
* Ciamician-Dennstedt rearrangement
* Claisen condensation
* Claisen rearrangement
* Claisen-Schmidt condensation
* Clemmensen reduction
* Collins-Reagent
* Combes quinoline synthesis
* Conia reaction
* Conrad-Limpach synthesis
* Corey-Gilman-Ganem oxidation
* Cook-Heilbron thiazole synthesis
* Cope elimination
* Cope rearrangement
* Corey reagent
* Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
* Corey-Fuchs reaction
* Corey-Kim oxidation
* Corey-Posner, Whitesides-House reaction
* Corey-Winter olefin synthesis
* Corey-Winter reaction
* Coupling reaction
* Craig method
* Cram's rule of asymmetric induction
* Creighton process
* Criegee reaction
* Criegee rearrangement
* Cross metathesis
* Crum Brown-Gibson rule
* Curtius degradation
* Curtius rearrangement, Curtius reaction

D

* Dakin reaction
* Dakin-West reaction
* Danheiser Annulation
* Darapsky degradation
* Darzens condensation, Darzens-Claisen reaction, Glycidic ester condensation
* Darzens synthesis of unsaturated ketones
* Darzens tetralin synthesis
* Delepine reaction
* Demjanov rearrangement
* Demjanow desamination
* Dess-Martin oxidation
* Diazotisation
* DIBAL-H selective reduction
* Dieckmann condensation
* Dieckmann reaction
* Diels-Alder reaction
* Diels Reese reaction
* Dienol benzene rearrangement
* Dienone phenol rearrangement
* Dimroth rearrangement
* Di-pi-methane rearrangement
* Directed ortho metalation
* Doebner modification
* Doebner reaction
* Doebner-Miller reaction, Beyer method for quinolines
* Doering-LaFlamme carbon chain extension
* Dötz reaction
* Dowd-Beckwith ring expansion reaction
* Duff reaction
* Dutt-Wormall reaction

E

* E1cB elimination reaction
* Eder reaction
* Edman degradation
* Eglinton reaction
* Ehrlich-Sachs reaction
* Einhorn variant
* Einhorn-Brunner reaction
* Elbs persulfate oxidation
* Elbs reaction
* Elimination reaction
* Emde degradation
* Emmert reaction
* Ene reaction
* Epoxidation
* Erlenmeyer synthesis, Azlactone synthesis
* Erlenmeyer-Plöchl azlactone and amino acid synthesis
* Eschenmoser fragmentation
* Eschweiler-Clarke reaction
* Ester pyrolysis
* Étard reaction
* Evans aldol

F

* Favorskii reaction
* Favorskii rearrangement
* Favorskii-Babayan synthesis
* Feist-Benary synthesis
* Fenton reaction
* Ferrario reaction
* Ferrier carbocyclization
* Ferrier rearrangement
* Finkelstein reaction
* Fischer indole synthesis
* Fischer oxazole synthesis
* Fischer peptide synthesis
* Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction
* Fischer glycosidation
* Fischer-Hepp rearrangement
* Fischer-Speier esterification
* Fischer Tropsch synthesis
* Fleming-Tamao oxidation
* Flood reaction
* Forster reaction
* Forster-Decker method
* Franchimont reaction
* Frankland synthesis
* Frankland-Duppa reaction
* Freund reaction
* Friedel-Crafts Acylation
* Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
* Friedländer synthesis
* Fries rearrangement
* Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement
* Fujimoto-Belleau reaction
* Fukuyama coupling
* Fukuyama indole synthesis

G

* Gabriel ethylenimine method
* Gabriel synthesis
* Gabriel-Colman rearrangement, Gabriel isoquinoline synthesis
* Gallagher-Hollander degradation
* Gassman indole synthesis
* Gastaldi synthesis
* Gattermann aldehyde synthesis
* Gattermann Koch reaction
* Gattermann reaction
* Gewald reaction
* Gibbs phthalic anhydride process
* Gilman reagent
* Glaser coupling
* Glycol cleavage
* Gogte synthesis
* Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
* Gomberg-Bachmann-Hey reaction
* Gomberg-Free radical reaction
* Gould-Jacobs reaction
* Graebe-Ullmann synthesis
* Grignard degradation
* Grignard reaction
* Grob fragmentation
* Grubbs' catalyst in Olefin metathesis
* Grundmann aldehyde synthesis
* Gryszkiewicz-Trochimowski and McCombie method
* Guareschi-Thorpe condensation
* Guerbet reaction
* Gutknecht pyrazine synthesis

H

* Haller-Bauer reaction
* Haloform reaction
* Hammett equation
* Hammick reaction
* Hammond-Principle or Hammond postulate
* Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis
* Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis, Hantzsch pyridine synthesis
* Hantzsch Pyridine synthesis, Gattermann-Skita synthesis, Guareschi-Thorpe condensation, Knoevenagel-Fries modification
* Hantzsch-Collidin-synthesis
* Harber-Weiss reaction
* Harries Ozonide reaction
* Haworth Methylation
* Haworth Phenanthrene synthesis
* Haworth-reaction
* Hay coupling
* Hayashi rearrangement
* Heck reaction
* Helferich method
* Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
* Hemetsberger indole synthesis
* Hemetsberger-Knittel synthesis
* Henkel reaction, Raecke process, Henkel process
* Henry reaction, Kamlet reaction
* Herz reaction, Herz compounds
* Herzig-Meyer alkimide group determination
* Heumann indigo synthesis
* Hinsberg indole synthesis
* Hinsberg oxindole synthesis
* Hinsberg reaction
* Hinsberg separation
* Hinsberg sulfone synthesis
* Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis
* Hock rearrangement
* Hofmann degradation, Exhaustive methylation
* Hofmann Elimination
* Hofmann Isonitrile synthesis, Carbylamine reaction
* Hofmann produkt
* Hofmann rearrangement
* Hofmann-Löffler reaction, Löffler-Freytag reaction, Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag reaction
* Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
* Hofmann's Rule
* Hofmann-Sand reaction
* Homo rearrangement of steroids
* Hooker reaction
* Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
* Hoesch reaction
* Hosomi-Sakurai reaction
* Houben-Fischer synthesis
* Hunsdiecker reaction
* Hydroboration
* Hydrohalogenation

I

* Ing-Manske procedure
* Ipso substitution
* Ivanov reagent, Ivanov reaction

J

* Jacobsen rearrangement
* Janovsky reaction
* Japp-Klingemann reaction
* Japp-Maitland condensation
* Johnson-Claisen rearrangement
* Jones oxidation
* Jordan-Ullmann-Goldberg synthesis
* Julia olefination
* Julia-Lythgoe olefination

K

* Kabachnik–Fields reaction
* Kiliani-Fischer synthesis
* Kindler reaction
* Kishner cyclopropane synthesis
* Knoevenagel condensation
* Knorr pyrazole synthesis
* Knorr pyrrole synthesis
* Knorr quinoline synthesis
* Koch-Haaf reaction
* Kochi reaction
* Koenigs-Knorr reaction
* Kolbe electrolysis
* Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
* Kornblum oxidation
* Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement
* Kowalski ester homologation
* Krapcho decarboxylation
* Kröhnke aldehyde synthesis
* Kröhnke oxidation
* Kröhnke pyridine synthesis
* Kucherov reaction
* Kuhn-Winterstein reaction
* Kulinkovich reaction
* Kumada coupling

L

* Larock indole synthesis
* Lebedev process
* Lehmstedt-Tanasescu reaction
* Leimgruber-Batcho indole synthesis
* Letts nitrile synthesis
* Leuckart reaction
* Leuckart thiophenol reaction
* Leuckart-Wallach reaction
* Leuckart amide synthesis
* Levinstein process
* Ley Oxidation
* Lieben iodoform reaction, Haloform reaction
* Liebeskind-Srogl coupling
* Lindlar catalyst
* Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation
* Lossen rearrangement
* Luche reduction

M

* Madelung synthesis
* Malaprade reaction, Periodic acid oxidation
* Malonic ester synthesis
* Mannich reaction
* Markó-Lam deoxygenation
* Markovnikov's rule, Markownikoff rule, Markownikow rule
* Martinet dioxindole synthesis
* McDougall monoprotection
* McFadyen-Stevens reaction
* McMurry reaction
* Meerwein arylation
* Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
* Meisenheimer rearrangement
* Meissenheimer complex
* Menshutkin reaction
* Metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement
* Mesylation
* Merckwald asymmetric synthesis
* Meyer and Hartmann reaction
* Meyer reaction
* Meyer synthesis
* Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
* Michael addition
* Michael addition, Michael system
* Michael condensation
* Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction
* Mignonac reaction
* Milas hydroxylation of olefins
* Mitsunobu reaction
* Mukaiyama aldol addition
* Mukaiyama reaction
* Myers' asymmetric alkylation

N

* Nametkin rearrangement
* Nazarov cyclization reaction
* Neber rearrangement
* Nef reaction
* Negishi coupling
* Negishi-Zipper reaction
* Nenitzescu indole synthesis
* Nenitzescu reductive acylation
* Nicholas reaction
* Niementowski quinazoline synthesis
* Niementowski quinoline synthesis
* Nierenstein reaction
* Nitroaldol reaction
* Normant reagents
* Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation
* Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Nickel/Chromium Coupling reaction
* Nucleophilic acyl substitution

O

* Ohira–Bestmann reaction
* Olefin metathesis
* Oppenauer oxidation
* Ostromyslenskii reaction, Ostromisslenskii reaction
* Oxidative decarboxylation
* Oxo synthesis
* Oxy-Cope rearrangement
* Oxymercuration
* Ozonolysis

P

* Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis
* Paal-Knorr synthesis
* Paneth technique
* Passerini reaction
* Paterno-Büchi reaction
* Pauson-Khand reaction
* Pechmann condensation
* Pechmann pyrazole synthesis
* Pellizzari reaction
* Pelouze synthesis
* Perkin alicyclic synthesis
* Perkin reaction
* Perkin rearrangement
* Perkow reaction
* Petasis reaction
* Petasis reagent
* Peterson olefination
* Peterson reaction
* Petrenko-Kritschenko piperidone synthesis
* Pfau-Plattner azulene synthesis
* Pfitzinger reaction
* Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
* Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis
* Pictet-Hubert reaction
* Pictet-Spengler tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis
* Pictet-Spengler reaction
* Piloty-Robinson pyrrole synthesis
* Pinacol coupling reaction
* Pinacol rearrangement
* Pinner amidine synthesis
* Pinner method for ortho esters
* Pinner reaction
* Pinner triazine synthesis
* Piria reaction
* Pitzer strain
* Polonovski reaction
* Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction
* Ponzio reaction
* Prelog strain
* Prevost reaction
* Prileschajew reaction
* Prilezhaev reaction
* Prins reaction
* Prinzbach synthesis
* Pschorr reaction
* Pummerer rearrangement
* Purdie methylation, Irvine-Purdie methylation

Q

R

* Ramberg-Backlund reaction
* Raney-Nickel
* Rap-Stoermer condensation
* Raschig phenol process
* Rauhut–Currier reaction
* Reed reaction
* Reformatskii reaction
* Reilly-Hickinbottom rearrangement
* Reimer-Tiemann reaction
* Reissert indole synthesis
* Reissert reaction, Reissert compound
* Reppe synthesis
* Retropinacol rearrangement
* Riemschneider thiocarbamate synthesis
* Riley oxidations
* Ring closing metathesis
* Ring opening metathesis
* Ritter reaction
* Robinson annulation
* Robinson-Gabriel synthesis
* Robinson Schopf reaction
* Rosenmund reaction
* Rosenmund reduction
* Rosenmund-von Braun synthesis
* Rothemund reaction
* Rupe rearrangement
* Rubottom oxidation
* Ruff-Fenton degradation
* Ruzicka large ring synthesis

S

* Sakurai reaction
* Salol reaction
* Sandheimer
* Sandmeyer diphenylurea isatin synthesis
* Sandmeyer isonitrosoacetanilide isatin synthesis
* Sandmeyer reaction
* Sanger reagent
* Sarett oxidation
* Saytzeff rule, Saytzeff's Rule
* Schiemann reaction
* Schlenk equilibrium
* Schlosser modification
* Schlosser variant
* Schmidlin ketene synthesis
* Schmidt degradation
* Schmidt reaction
* Scholl reaction
* Schorigin Shorygin reaction, Shorygin reaction, Wanklyn reaction
* Schotten-Baumann reaction
* Semidine rearrangement
* Semmler-Wolff reaction
* Seyferth-Gilbert homologation
* Shapiro reaction
* Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
* Sharpless epoxidation
* Sharpless oxyamination or aminohydroxylation
* Simmons-Smith reaction
* Simonini reaction
* Simonis chromone cyclization
* Skraup chinolin synthesis
* Skraup reaction
* Smiles rearrangement
* SNAr nucleophilic aromatic substitution
* SN1
* SN2
* SNi
* Sommelet reaction
* Sonn-Müller method
* Sonogashira coupling
* Sørensen formol titration
* Staedel-Rugheimer pyrazine synthesis
* Staudinger reaction
* Stephen aldehyde synthesis
* Stetter reaction
* Stevens rearrangement
* Stieglitz rearrangement
* Stille coupling
* Stobbe condensation
* Stollé synthesis
* Stork acylation
* Stork enamine alkylation
* Strecker amino acid synthesis
* Strecker degradation
* Strecker sulfite alkylation
* Strecker synthesis
* Suzuki coupling
* Swain equation
* Swarts reaction
* Swern oxidation

T

* Tamao oxidation
* Tafel rearrangement
* Takai olefination
* Tebbe olefination
* ter Meer reaction
* Thiele reaction
* Thorpe reaction
* Tiemann rearrangement
* Tiffeneau ring enlargement reaction
* Tiffeneau-Demjanow rearrangement
* Tischtschenko reaction
* Tishchenko reaction, Tischischenko-Claisen reaction
* Tollens reagent
* Trapp mixture
* Traube purine synthesis
* Truce-Smiles rearrangement
* Tscherniac-Einhorn reaction
* Tschitschibabin reaction
* Tschugajeff reaction
* Twitchell process
* Tyrer sulfonation process

U

* Ugi reaction
* Ullmann reaction
* Upjohn dihydroxylation
* Urech cyanohydrin method
* Urech hydantoin synthesis

V

* Van Slyke determination
* Varrentrapp reaction
* Vilsmeier reaction
* Vilsmeier-Haack reaction
* Voight amination
* Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
* von Braun amide degradation
* von Braun reaction
* von Richter cinnoline synthesis
* von Richter reaction

W

* Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
* Wagner-Jauregg reaction
* Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
* Walden inversion
* Wallach rearrangement
* Weerman degradation
* Weinreb ketone synthesis
* Wenker ring closure
* Wenker synthesis
* Wessely-Moser rearrangement
* Westphalen-Lettré rearrangement
* Wharton reaction
* Whiting reaction
* Wichterle reaction
* Widman-Stoermer synthesis
* Wilkinson catalyst
* Willgerodt rearrangement
* Willgerodt-Kindler reaction
* Williamson ether synthesis
* Winstein reaction
* Wittig reaction
* Wittig rearrangement
* Wittig-Horner reaction
* Wohl degradation
* Wohl-Aue reaction
* Wohler synthesis
* Wohl-Ziegler reaction
* Wolffenstein-Böters reaction
* Wolff rearrangement
* Wolff-Kishner reduction
* Woodward cis-hydroxylation
* Woodward-Hoffmann rule
* Wulff-Dötz reaction
* Wurtz coupling, Wurtz reaction
* Wurtz-Fittig reaction

Y

* Yamaguchi esterification

Z

* Zeisel determination
* Zerevitinov determination, Zerewitinoff determination
* Ziegler condensation
* Ziegler method
* Zimmermann reaction
* Zincke disulfide cleavage
* Zinke nitration
* Zincke reaction
* Zincke-Suhl reaction


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