The Named Organic Reactions Collection

(written by third year undergraduate students from the University of Oxford)

List of Named Organic Reactions in the collection
(with 478 reactions online each with two recent literature example reactions and with 646 additional examples reactions added)

Acyloin Condensation
with 4 follow-up reactions
Adams Reaction
Akabori Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Aldol Condensation
with 13 follow-up reactions
Algar-Flynn-Oyamada
ALKENE METATHESIS
with 3 follow-up reactions
Allan-Robinson
Amadori Glucosamine rearrangement
Amadori Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
aoutalftla
Arbuzov Reaction(aka Michaelis-Arbuzov)
with 3 follow-up reactions
Arens - van Dorp synthesis
Arndt-Eistert Synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
aroicdoeji
Aza-Baylis-Hillman
Aza-Claisen rearrangement
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Baeyer Villiger Oxidation
with 7 follow-up reactions
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement
Ball-Goodwin-Morton
Balz-Schiemann Reaction
Bamberger Rearrangement
Bamford-Stevens
with 2 follow-up reactions
Barbier Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Barbier Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Barbier Wieland Degradation
Bardhan-Senguph Synthesis
Barluenga Iodination Reagent
Barry Reaction
Bartoli indole synthesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
Barton - McCombie Deoxygenation
with 2 follow-up reactions
Barton Decarboxylation
Barton Olefin Synthesis (Barton-Kellogg Reaction)
Barton Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
Barton's Ester
Barton-Zard
Baudisch
Baylis-Hillman
with 2 follow-up reactions
Béchamp Reduction
Beckmann Rearrangement.
with 7 follow-up reactions
Beckmann Fragmentation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Benkeser Reduction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Benzidine rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Benzilic Acid Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Benzoin Condensation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Bergman Cyclisation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Bernthsen Acridine Synthesis
Betti Reaction
Biginelli
with 3 follow-up reactions
Birch Reduction
with 8 follow-up reactions
Bischler-Möhlau Indole Synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
Bischler-Naperialski Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
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Blaise Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Blanc Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Bodroux-Chichibabin Aldehyde Synthesis
Boekelheide Reaction
Boger Pyridine Synthesis
Bogert-Cook Synthesis
Boord Reaction
Boulton-Katritzky rearrangement
Bouveault Aldehyde synthesis
Bouveault-Blanc Reduction
Boyland-Sims Oxidation
Bradsher Cyclisation
Bredereck’s Reagent
Brook Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Bucherer Reaction
Bucherer-Burg
with 1 follow-up reaction
Buchner Ring Enlargement
Buchwald-Hartwig Cross Coupling Reaction
Bunnett Reaction
Burgess Reagent
with 2 follow-up reactions
Cadiot-Chodkiewicz Coupling
with 1 follow-up reaction
Canizzaro Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Cannizzaro Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Carroll Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Castro-Stephens Coupling
Chan rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Chapman Rearrangement
Chichibabin Pyridine Synthesis
Chichibabin Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Chugaev
with 2 follow-up reactions
Claisen Condensation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Claisen Rearrangement
with 4 follow-up reactions
Clauson-Kaas
Clemmensen Reduction
with 3 follow-up reactions
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Collman's Reagent
Combes Quinoline Synthesis
Conia Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Conrad Limpach Synthesis
Cope Elimination
with 2 follow-up reactions
Cope Rearrangement
with 4 follow-up reactions
Corey Kim oxidation
with 2 follow-up reactions
Corey-Bakshi-Shibata Reaction (CBS)
Corey-Winter Olefin Synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
Cornforth Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Crabtree's Catalyst
Criegee Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Curtius Reaction & Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
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Dakin Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Dakin-West Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Danishefskys Diene
with 1 follow-up reaction
Darzens Condensation
with 2 follow-up reactions
De Mayo Reaction
Delepine Reaction
Demjanov rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Dess Martin Periodinane
with 2 follow-up reactions
Diazotisation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Dieckmann Condensation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Diels-Alder Reaction
with 21 follow-up reactions
Dienone Phenol Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Dimroth Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Di-Pi Methane Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Doebner-von Miller Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Dotz Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Dowd-Beckwith Ring Expansion
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Duff Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Edman Degradation
Eglinton Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Ehrlich-Sachs
Einhorn Reaction (Tscherniac - Einhorn Reaction)
Elbs Reaction
Emde Degradation
Ene reaction
with 9 follow-up reactions
Erlenmeyer-Ploechl Azlactone and Amino Acid Synthesis
Eschenmoser and Tanabe Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Eschweiler-Clarke Alkylation
Étard reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Evans Aldol Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Evans Oxazolidinones
Favorskii Rearrangement
with 5 follow-up reactions
Favorskii Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Feist-Benary Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Fenton Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Ferrier rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Fetizon's Reagent
Finkelstein Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Fischer Carbene Reagent
Fischer Indole Synthesis
with 6 follow-up reactions
Fischer-Hepp Rearrangement
Fleming-Kumada-Tamao Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Flood Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Forster Reaction
Fremy Salt
with 1 follow-up reaction
Freund Reaction
Friedel Crafts Alkylation
with 6 follow-up reactions
Friedel-Crafts Acylation
with 6 follow-up reactions
Friedlander Synthesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
Fries Rearrangement
with 5 follow-up reactions
Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell Rearrangement.
with 1 follow-up reaction
Gabriel Synthesis
with 3 follow-up reactions
Garner Aldehyde
Gattermann Reaction
Gattermann-Koch Formylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
ggmqoi
Giese Free Radical Addition to Double bonds
Glaser Coupling
with 2 follow-up reactions
Glaser Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Goldberg reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Gomberg Hey
with 1 follow-up reaction
Gould Jacobs Reaction
Grabe-Ullmann Reaction
Gribble indole Reduction
Griess Reaction
Grignard Reaction
with 5 follow-up reactions
Grob Fragmentation
with 4 follow-up reactions
Guerbet Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Hajos Parrish reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Haller-Bauer Reaction
Haloform Reaction
with 4 follow-up reactions
Hammick Reaction
Hantzsch synthesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
Haworth Reaction
Hayashi Rearrangement
Heck Reaction
with 7 follow-up reactions
Hell-Volhard-Zelinskii reaction
Henry Reaction
with 4 follow-up reactions
HERON Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Herz Reaction
Hinsberg Reaction
Hinsberg Thiophene Synthesis
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Hoch-Campbell Aziridine Synthesis
Hofmann Elimination
with 1 follow-up reaction
Hofmann Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag reaction
Hofmann-Martius Rearrangement
Hooker Reaction
Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Olefination
with 4 follow-up reactions
Hosomi-Sakurai Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Houben-Hoesch Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Hunsdiecker Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Hydroboration
with 4 follow-up reactions
Iodolactonisation
with 2 follow-up reactions
Ireland-Claisen reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Ivanov
Jacobsen Epoxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Jacobsen rearrangement
Japp-Klingemann Reaction
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Johnson Orthoester-Claisen Rearrangement
Jones' oxidation
with 7 follow-up reactions
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Julia epoxidation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Julia Olefination
with 3 follow-up reactions
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Kawase
Keck allylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Keck Macrocyclisation
Kemp Elimination
Kendall-Mattox reaction
Kennedy oxidative cyclization
Kharasch Addition Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Kiliani fischer synthesis
knoevenagel
Knoevenagel Condensation
with 4 follow-up reactions
Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
Koch Haaf Reaction
Kochi Reaction
Koenigs-Knorr
Kolbe Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Kornblum Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Koser's reagent
Kostanecki Acylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Krapcho Decarbalkoxylation
Kröhnke Oxidation
Krohnke Pyridine Synthesis
Kucherov Reaction
Kuhn-Winterstein Reaction
Kulinkovich Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Kumada Coupling
Larock indole synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
Lawesson's Reagent
with 5 follow-up reactions
Lemieux-Johnson Oxidation
Leuckart Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
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Lossen Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Luche reduction
with 4 follow-up reactions
Madelung Synthesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
Majetich cyclobutane annulation
Mannich Reaction
with 7 follow-up reactions
Marfey's Reagent
Marschalk Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Mclafferty Rearrangement
McMurry Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Meerwein Arylation Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Meerwein Ponndorf Verley Reduction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Meisenheimer Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
meldrum acid
with 1 follow-up reaction
Menschutkin Reaction
Meyer reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Meyers Aldehyde Synthesis
Meyer-Schuster rearrangement
Michael Addition
with 10 follow-up reactions
Midlands Reagent (Alpine Borane)
Milas hydroxylation of an olefin
Mislow-Evans Rearrangement
Mitsunobu Reaction
with 9 follow-up reactions
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Moffatt Oxidation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Moore Myers Cyclization
Morin rearrangement
Mosher's Acid
Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction
Mukaiyama reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Mukaiyama-Michael reaction
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mwyvbrg
Myers Cyclization
with 2 follow-up reactions
Nametkin Rearrangement
Nazarov Cyclisation Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Neber Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Nef Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Negishi Cross Coupling
with 1 follow-up reaction
Nenitzescu Indole Synthesis
Nicholas Reaction
Nicholas Reaction
Niementowski Quinazoline Synthesis
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Norrish Type Reaction
Noyori Hydrogenation
Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Nysted Reagent
with 1 follow-up reaction
ojemajzwar
Olah's Reagent
Olefin Metathesis
with 2 follow-up reactions
opdoli
Oppenauer Oxidation
with 2 follow-up reactions
Oppolzer's Auxiliary (reagent)
Orton Rearrangment
Overman Rearrangement
Oxy-Cope reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Ozonolysis
with 5 follow-up reactions
Paal-Knorr Synthesis Of Pyrroles
with 3 follow-up reactions
Parham cyclisation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Parikh-Doering Oxidation
Passerini Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Passerini Reaction
Paterno- Büchi Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Pauson-Khand reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Payne rearrangement
with 4 follow-up reactions
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Pearlman's catalyst
Pechmann Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Perkin Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Perkow Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Peterson Olefination
with 5 follow-up reactions
Peterson Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Pfitzinger Synthesis
Pfitzner-Moffatt Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Photo Fries Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Pictet-Gams cyclisation
Pictet-Spengler Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Pinacol Rearrangement
with 5 follow-up reactions
Pinacol Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Pinner Synthesis
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Polonovski reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Pomeranz-Fritsch Reaction
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Prevost Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Prilezhaev Reaction
Prins Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Pschorr Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Pummerer Rearrangement
with 5 follow-up reactions
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qtmstbbrjr
Quelet Reaction
Ramberg-Backlund reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Raney Nickel
with 3 follow-up reactions
Reformatsky Reaction.
with 4 follow-up reactions
Reimer-Tiemann Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Reissert Indole Synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
Reissert-type reaction
Retro Diels-Alder Reaction
with 4 follow-up reactions
Retropinacol Rearrangement
Reverdin Reaction
Reverse-Cope Elimination
with 2 follow-up reactions
Riley Oxidation (Selenium Dioxide)
Ritter Reaction
with 5 follow-up reactions
Robinson Annulation Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Robinson ring annulation
with 2 follow-up reactions
Robinson-Schöpf Reaction
Rosenmund Reduction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Rosenmund-von Braun Synthesis
Rothemund Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Roush Coupling
with 1 follow-up reaction
Rubottom Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Rupe Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Ruppert (Perfluoroalkylation)
with 2 follow-up reactions
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Saegusa Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Sakurai allylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Sandmeyer Isonitrosoacetanilide Isatin Synthesis
Sandmeyer reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Sarett Oxidation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Schiemann
with 1 follow-up reaction
Schmidt Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Scholl reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Schollkopf Bis-Lactim Amino Acid Synthesis
Schotten-Baumann Reaction
Schwartz Reagent
Schwartz's reagent
Semmler-Wolff Aromatization
Seyferth-Gilbert Homologation
Shapiro reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Sharpless Asymmetric Aminohydroxylation
Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation (AD)
with 2 follow-up reactions
Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation
with 5 follow-up reactions
Sharpless Epoxidation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Shi Asymmetric Epoxidation
Simmons-Smith
with 5 follow-up reactions
sjmbzwoik
Skraup synthesis
with 5 follow-up reactions
Smiles Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Sommelet Hauser Rearrangement
with 1 follow-up reaction
Sommelet-Hauser
with 1 follow-up reaction
Sonogashira Coupling
with 2 follow-up reactions
Staudinger
with 2 follow-up reactions
Staudinger Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Stevens Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Stieglitz Rearrangement
Stille Coupling
with 4 follow-up reactions
Still-Gennari phosphonate reaction
Stobbe Condensation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Stolle Reaction
Stork Enamine Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Strecker Degradation
Strecker Synthesis
with 5 follow-up reactions
Strecker Synthesis of Amino Acids
with 1 follow-up reaction
Suarez Rearrangement
Sugasawa Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
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Suzuki Coupling
with 4 follow-up reactions
Swern Oxidation
with 10 follow-up reactions
Tebbe Reagent
with 2 follow-up reactions
Thiele-Winter Acetoxylation
Thorpe Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement
Tishchenko Reaction
Tishchenko Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Trost Allylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Trost Desymmetrization
Tsuji-Trost Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Ueno-Stork Cyclisation
Ugi condensation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Ullmann Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
Van Boom's reagent
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Vilsmeier Formylation
with 3 follow-up reactions
Vilsmeier–Haack reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Vollhardt Co-Trimerization
Von Braun
Von Richter (Cinnoline) Synthesis
Vorbruggen Glycosylation
Wacker Reaction
with 3 follow-up reactions
Wagner-Jauregg Reaction
Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
with 5 follow-up reactions
Walden Inversion
Wallach Rearrangement
Weinreb Reaction
Weiss Reaction
Wender
Wenker Ring Closure
Wessely-Moser Rearrangment
Wharton Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Whiting Reaction
Wilkinson's Catalyst
with 2 follow-up reactions
Willgerodt - Kindler
with 2 follow-up reactions
William’s Glycinate Reagent
Williamson synthesis
with 1 follow-up reaction
Wittig Olefination
with 13 follow-up reactions
Wittig Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Wittig-[1,2]-Rearrangement
with 2 follow-up reactions
Wittig-[2,3]-rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Wohl-Ziegler Reaction
with 1 follow-up reaction
Wolf Kishner Reduction
with 6 follow-up reactions
Wolff Rearrangement
with 3 follow-up reactions
Woodward Dihydroxylation
with 1 follow-up reaction
Wurtz Reaction
with 2 follow-up reactions
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Yamada coupling reagent
Yamaguchi esterification
with 1 follow-up reaction
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Ziegler Alkylation
Ziegler-Natta Polymerization
Zimmerman-Traxler Transition State Model
Zincke-Suhl Reaction
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