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Alicyclic- electrophilic addition of bromine to cyclohexene (bromonium ion opening)
Alicyclic- Grobb rearrangement
Alicyclic- norborane solvolysis- non-classical carbocation
Alicyclic- small rings- alpha-carbocation to three membered ring- rearrangement
Alicyclic- small rings- ring opening
Alicyclic- small rings- ring opening with radical
Alicyclic- trans-decalin epoxide opening
Alicyclic- transannular bromination
Alicyclic- transannular ring closure
Alkenes- addition of Br2
Alkenes- anti-dihydroxylation
Alkenes- CCl3 and NaOH with alkene (carbene formation).
Alkenes- Diels Alder- cycloaddition
Alkenes- Diols from OsO4 to aldehydes (IO4/H2O)
Alkenes- electrophilic addition of Br2 and H2O
Alkenes- electrophilic addition of H2O
Alkenes- electrophilic addition of HBr
Alkenes- electrophilic addition of HBr (Hydride Shift)
Alkenes- formation by dehydrogenation of alcohols
Alkenes- formation by elimination of charged leaving group (Hoffman product)
Alkenes- formation by elimination of HHal from RHal (E2)
Alkenes- free radical addition of HBr
Alkenes- hydroboration
Alkenes- I2 AgOAc, AcOH (dry)- Prevost reaction.
Alkenes- I2 AgOAc, AcOH (wet)- Woodward reaction
Alkenes- organoboranes to alcohols
Alkenes- oxymercuration to form alcohol
Alkenes- ozonolysis
Alkenes- Ozonolysis of cyclohexene (1,6 dialdehyde)
Alkenes- syn-dihydroxylation (OsO4)
Alkynes- addition of hydrogen halides
Alkynes- hydration to ketones (Markovnikov)
Alkynes- isomerisation
Alkynes- reduction to E-alkene
Alkynes- reduction to Z alkene
Amines- from amides (LiAlH4)
Amines- Gabriel synthesis
Amines- overalkylation
Amines- reduction of azides- Staudinger Reaction
Aromatic- add iodine.
Aromatic- alinine preparation
Aromatic- Alkylation via organolithium
Aromatic- azo salts to CN, Br, Cl (Sand-Meyer)
Aromatic- Benzylic bromination with NBS
Aromatic- Benzynes- Bergman cyclisation (para-benzyne)
Aromatic- Benzynes- Diels-Alder cyclo-addition
Aromatic- Benzynes- Diels-Alder with Furan
Aromatic- Benzynes- formation of alinine from bromobenzene
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation from azide
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation from halobenzene and strong base
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation from lithium exchange
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation from triflate with SiMe3 group
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation via fragmentation
Aromatic- Benzynes- Preparation via oxidative fragmentation
Aromatic- Birch Reduction to dialkene
Aromatic- Blanc Reaction- addition of CH2Cl to benzene
Aromatic- chromium complex formation
Aromatic- chromium complex reacting with alkoxide
Aromatic- chromium complex reacting with Nuc.
Aromatic- Fischer indole synthesis
Aromatic- Fluorination (using diazonium salt and BF4)
Aromatic- Fluorination by SNAr
Aromatic- Fluorination using "F+"
Aromatic- Fluorination- Bamberger reaction
Aromatic- formation of azo salts
Aromatic- formation of benzoic acid
Aromatic- Formylation by Vilmeir reaction
Aromatic- Formylation using ArLi
Aromatic- Formylation- methyl group to aldehyde
Aromatic- Formylation- Riemer Tiemann reaction
Aromatic- Fridel-Crafts thermodynamic product- three meta substituents
Aromatic- Friedel-crafts acylation
Aromatic- Friedel-crafts alkylation
Aromatic- furan diels alder reaction
Aromatic- furan- Nitration using AcONO2
Aromatic- furan- reaction with Br2 in methanol
Aromatic- Gatterman-Koch formylation (adding aldehyde to benzene ring)
Aromatic- halogenation
Aromatic- Heck Reaction- coupling of Csp2 with aromatic system
Aromatic- Iodination via metal-halogen exchange
Aromatic- NArS alkylation to chromium complex
Aromatic- Nitration
Aromatic- Ortholithiation then react with amide
Aromatic- Ortholithiation to add carboxylic acid group
Aromatic- Phenol electrophilic substitution of halide.
Aromatic- Phenol preparation from azo-salts and water
Aromatic- Preparation of phenol from Grignard reagent and O2
Aromatic- Preparation of phenol from H3O+ and O2
Aromatic- Preparation of phenol- Bayer Villiger reaction
Aromatic- Preparation of phenol- Dakin reaction
Aromatic- Preparation of phenol- Friers Rearrangement
Aromatic- Pyridine synthesis (Guareschi)
Aromatic- pyridine synthesis (Paal-Knorr)
Aromatic- pyridine- catalyst for acylation reactions
Aromatic- pyridine- reaction with PCl2
Aromatic- pyridine- removal of oxide from pyrridine-N-oxide
Aromatic- pyridine-N-oxide formation
Aromatic- pyridines- Chichibabin reaction to form amino pyridine
Aromatic- pyridines- electrophilic substitution with pyridine-N-oxide
Aromatic- pyridines- Nitration of pyridone
Aromatic- pyridines- nucleophilic substitution
Aromatic- pyridines- Pyridine-N-oxide- activates electrophilic substitution
Aromatic- pyridines- reaction of halopyridines with nucleophiles
Aromatic- pyridines- reaction of pyridinium salts with nucleophiles
Aromatic- pyridines- reduction of pyridinium salts
Aromatic- Pyrrole synthesis- Hantzsch
Aromatic- Pyrrole synthesis- Knorr
Aromatic- Pyrrole synthesis- Paal Knorr
Aromatic- pyrrole- polymerisation
Aromatic- Pyrrole- porphyrin ring synthesis
Aromatic- pyrrole- Vilsmeier reaction (acylation)
Aromatic- SNAr - addition of hydrzine (NHNH2)
Aromatic- SRN1- addition of enolates etc. to halobenzenes
Aromatic- Skraup synthesis of Quinolines
Aromatic- Stille Reaction- coupling of Csp2 with aromatic system- with control
Aromatic- Sulphonation
Aromatic- Suzuki Reaction- coupling of Csp2 with aromatic system using RB(OH)2
Aromatic- Tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis Pictet Spengler reaction
Aromatic- Vicarious nucloeophilic substitution
Biological chemistry- Enamine chemistry- aldolase type I
Biological Chemistry- formation of glycosidic bond
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- ATP- activation of alcohols
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- Biotin- Carboxylation
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- CoASH- Acylation
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- NADP- Hydride acceptor
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- NADPH- Hydride donor
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- Pyridoxal- Decarboxylation
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- Pyridoxal- Reductive amination
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- SAM- Methylation
Biological chemistry- Nature's reagents- TPP- Umpolung chemistry
Biological Chemistry- RNA hydrolysis
Carbenes- (Carbenoid) Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation
Carbenes- 1,2-shift to form alkene
Carbenes- 1,2-shift to form alkyne
Carbenes- 1,2-shift with 3-membered ring
Carbenes- addition to alkenes- singlet (concerted mechanism)
Carbenes- addition to alkenes- triplet (stepwise mechanism)
Carbenes- Arndt-Ernst to form ester
Carbenes- C-H insertion
Carbenes- C-H insertion to form three-membered ring
Carbenes- carbenoids Rh2(OAc)4 cyclisation
Carbenes- Eschenmoser Fragmentation
Carbenes- ester formation from alcohols
Carbenes- Generation from RNNHTs followed by C-H insertion (9 membered ring)
Carbenes- intramolecular C-H insertion on alkene to form alkyne (three equiv. MeLi)
Carbenes- nucleophilic addition
Carbenes- preparation from acyl chloride and diazomethane
Carbenes- Preparation from bicyclic compound- gives napthalene
Carbenes- Preparation from CCl3H (alpha-elimination)
Carbenes- Preparation from diazo compounds
Carbenes- Preparation from ketenes
Carbenes- preparation from tosyl hydrazines
Carbenes- Preparation of diazo compounds
Carbenes- preparation of diazomethane
Carbenes- reaction of diazomethane with carboxylic acids
Carbenes- reaction with benzene to form cycloheptatriene
Carbenes- reaction with phenol to form aldehyde
Carbenes- reaction with pyrrole to form pyridine
Carbenes- Simmons-Smith reaction
Carbenes- Wolff-rearrangement- add an extra CH2 to a ketone
Conjugate addition- alcohol as nucleophile (acid catalyst)
Conjugate addition- alcohol as nucleophile (base catalyst)
Conjugate addition- ammonia as nucleophile
Conjugate addition- cyanohydrin addition to unsaturated ketone
Conjugate addition- intramolecular
Conjugate addition- organometallic as nucleophile
Conjugate addition- primary amine as nucleophile
Conjugate addition- resonance is alpha-beta saturated carbonyls
Conjugate addition- secondary amine as nucleophile
Conjugate addition- to alpha-beta unsaturated nitro-group
Cyclisation- carbanion based - diethyl malonate to form small rings
Cyclisation- carbanion based - sulphur stabilised anions to form rings
Cyclisation- carbanion based - Thorpe-Zeigler reaction
Cyclisation- carbanion based- Dieckmann cyclisation
Cyclisation- carbanion based- intramolecular aldol
Cyclisation- carbanion based- Micheal addition followed by internal Aldol
Cyclisation- carbanion based- using sulphones to form rings
Cyclisation- carbanion based- using sulphur ylids to form rings
Cyclisation- carbocation cyclisation
Cyclisation- radical based - Hoffmann-Loeffter-Freytag reaction
Cyclisation- radical cyclisation
Cyclisation- ring closure of Homoallyl cations
Enols and Enolates- carboxylic acids from ketones (bromoform)
Enols and Enolates- Claisen condensation
Enols and Enolates- decarboxylation
Enols and Enolates- Manaloate with I2
Enols and Enolates- Mannich reaction to form amines
Enols and Enolates- Robinson ring annelation
Epoxides- nucleophilic attack on
Epoxides- preparation by conjugate addition
Epoxides- preparation from beta-halocarbonyl compounds (Darzens)
Epoxides- preparation from halohydrins
Epoxides- preparation from mcpba (epoxidation)
Free radicals- 1,5-hydrogen abstraction- alkoxyl radical
Free radicals- 1,5-hydrogen abstraction- Generic
Free radicals- Acyloin reaction to form 1,2-diketones
Free Radicals- allylic bromination
Free radicals- attack of C=C double bond by radicals
Free Radicals- B-scission with SnBu3 free radical.
Free Radicals- C-C formation using SnBu3H and R-Br
Free Radicals- electrophilic radicals and addition of vinyl ether
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Conversion of phenol to benzoquinone
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Deamination
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Decarboxylation
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Dehalogenation
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Deoxygenation of 10 or 20 alcohols
Free radicals- Functional group interconversions- Deoxygenation of 30 hydroxyl group
Free radicals- halogenation of alkanes
Free radicals- Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag reaction
Free Radicals- Homolysis of AIBN- Free radical generation
Free Radicals- Homolysis to form Ph radical
Free Radicals- Hunsdiecker- formation of organohalides from silver carboxylic acid salts
Free Radicals- Kolbe synthesis to form alkanes from carboxylic acids
Free radicals- McMurry reaction- alkenes from ketones
Free radicals- Pinacol coupling
Free radicals- Preparation from mercury hydrides
Free radicals- Radical co-polymerisation
Free Radicals- Radical substitution of Br by H
Free radicals- Rearrangements- 1,5-exo cyclisation formation of cis ring junction
Free radicals- Rearrangements- 5-exo-trig cyclisation
Free radicals- Rearrangements- 5-exo-trig cyclisation followed by cyclopropylcarbinyl fragmentation
Free radicals- Rearrangements- 6-endo-trig cyclisation under thermodynamic control
Free radicals- Rearrangements- Beta-Scission
Free radicals- Rearrangements- Cyclopropylcarbinyl rearrangement
Free radicals- Rearrangements- Homobenzylic rearrangement (1,2-phenyl shift)
Free radicals- Synthesis- Barton nitrite ester reaction
Free Radicals- Use of CCl3Br to form C-C bonds
Ketenes- dimerisation
Ketenes- Preparation during ester formation using acyl chloride
Ketenes- Preparation from beta-chloro acyl chloride and Zn
Ketenes- Preparation from cyclic di-ester
Ketenes- Preparation from Wolff-Rearrangement
Ketenes- reaction with nucleophile
Ketenes- [2+2] cylco-addtions (to ketone/alkene)
Ketenes- [2,2] Cycloaddition- antarifacial, suprafacial molecular overlap
Materials chemistry- Metathesis to form polymer
Materials chemistry- Ring-opening-metathesis-polymerisation (ROMP)
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Chemoluminescence
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Phenolphthalien as a pH indicator
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Photoinduced electron transfer
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Photoinduced electron transfer- Ion detector (anthracene derivative)
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Photoinduced electron transfer- pH indicator (anthracene derivative)
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Reactive binding to fibre
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Synthesis of Azo dyes
Molecular materials and polymers- Dyes- Synthesis of cyanines
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyacetylene- Durham synthesis
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyacetylene- Ziegler-Natta synthesis
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyparaphenylene- preparation from Diels-Alder route
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyparaphenylene- preparation from oxidation of benzene
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyparaphenylene- preparation of PPP planar ladder
Molecular materials and polymers- Organic conductors- Polyparaphenylene- preparation via modified ICI route
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Chain growth polymerisation- Anionic ring opening
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Living polymerisation- Anionic
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Living polymerisation- Atom transfer radical polymerisation (ATRP)
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Living polymerisation- Radical
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Living polymerisation- Ring opening metathesis (ROMP)
Molecular materials and polymers- Polymers- Step growth polymerisation- PET
Nitrenes- 1,2-shift rearrangement
Nitrenes- addition to alkenes
Nitrenes- addition to C-H bonds (insertion)
Nitrenes- Hoffman rearrangement to form amine from amide
Nitrenes- Preparation by oxidation of R-NH2
Nitrenes- Preparation by reduction of R-NO2
Nitrenes- Preparation from alpha-elimination
Nitrenes- Preparation from azides (also organohalides)
Nitrenes- rearrangement concerted with formation
Nucleophilc substitution- acetal formation from hemiacetal
Nucleophilc substitution- acyl chlorides from PCl5
Nucleophilc substitution- acyl chlorides from SOCl2
Nucleophilc substitution- amide hydrolysis (acid catalyst)
Nucleophilc substitution- amide hydrolysis (base catalyst)
Nucleophilc substitution- cyclic acetal formation
Nucleophilc substitution- decomposition of hemiacetal (acid)
Nucleophilc substitution- decomposition of hemiacetal (base)
Nucleophilc substitution- enamine formation
Nucleophilc substitution- ester hydrolysis (acid catalyst)
Nucleophilc substitution- ester hydrolysis (base catalyst)
Nucleophilc substitution- esterification
Nucleophilc substitution- imine decomposition
Nucleophilc substitution- imine formation
Nucleophilc substitution- nitrile hydrolysis
Nucleophilc substitution- orthoester hydrolysis
Nucleophilc substitution- oxime formation
Nucleophilc substitution- reduction of amides to amines
Nucleophilc substitution- reductive amination to form amines from imines
Nucleophilc substitution- Strecker synthesis (amino acid synthesis)
Nucleophilc substitution- tertiary amide hydrolysis
Nucleophilc substitution- transesterification
Nucleophilc substitution- Wittig reaction
Nucleophilic addition bisulphite addition (for recrystallisation)
Nucleophilic addition bisulphite hydrolysis
Nucleophilic addition of cyanide ion to carbonyl group
Nucleophilic addition of hydride ion to carbonyl group
Nucleophilic addition of organometallic to carbonyl group
Nucleophilic addition- cyclic hemiacetal formation
Nucleophilic substitution- Aldehydes to carboxylic acids and alcohols- Cannizzaro reaction
Nucleophilic Substitution- Benzoin condensation- cyanide with aromatic aldehydes
Nucleophilic substitution- ketones to alkanes- Wolf-Kischner reaction
Organoboranes- Carbonylation
Organoboranes- Conversion to alcohol
Organoboranes- Conversion to amines
Organoboranes- Conversion to hydrogen
Organoboranes- Conversion to organohalide
Organoboranes- Formation of dialkoxyallylboranes
Organoboranes- formation of Z-alkene from alkyne (R2BH, then NaOH and I2)
Organoboranes- Preparation from alkenes
Organoboranes- Reaction of allyl-borane with aldehyde
Organoboranes- Reaction with alpha-haloesters (Darzens style reaction)
Organohalides- as alkylating agents for carbonyl compoundds
Organohalides- formation of alcohols
Organohalides- formation of RNC
Organohalides- preparation from ROH and HX
Organohalides- preparation from ROH and PBr3
Organohalides- preparation from SOCl2
Organohalides- preparation from tosylate and alcohol
Organohalides- reaction with O2 to form alcohols
Organohalides- Wagner-Meewein Rearrangment.
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Aryl anion as nucleophile
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Aryl anion from removal of TMS group
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Benzylic anion as nucleophile
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic addition
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic addition- formation of benzaldehyde
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic addition- indol
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic addition- with methoxy substituent
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic addition- with methoxy substituent- intramolecular
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Preparation
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Reduction of attached carbonyl- stereoselectivity
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- SN1 via carbonium ion
Organometallics option- Arene chromium tricarbonyl complexes- Stereochemistry of nucleophilic substitution of alpha leaving group
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η2 alkene complexes- Conversion of epoxides to alkenes
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η2 alkene complexes- Synthesis
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η2 alkene complexes- Synthesis of β-Lactams
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η2 alkene complexes- Synthesis of four membered amide rings
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η4 alkene complexes- Decomplexation
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η4 alkene complexes- Synthesis
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η5 alkene complexes- Nucleophilic attack
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- η5 alkene complexes- Synthesis
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- Fp- Reduction of Fp2 to Fp-
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- Fp- Decomplexation to Fp alkyls to form carbonyl compounds
Organometallics option- Iron chemistry- Fp- Synthesis of Fp2
Organometallics- basic activity
Organometallics- carboxylic acid formation (from CO2)
Organometallics- from deprotonating alkynes
Organometallics- Grignard reagant formation (oxidative insertion)
Organometallics- Halogen metal exchange
Organometallics- organolithiation
Organometallics- ortholithiation
Organometallics- primary alcohol formation from formaldehyde
Organometallics- secondary alcohol formation from aldehydes
Organometallics- tertiary alcohol formation from ketones
Organometallics- transmetallation
Pericyclic reactions- Chelotropic rearrangements- bicyclic compound
Pericyclic reactions- Chelotropic rearrangements- carbene addition to alkenes
Pericyclic reactions- Chelotropic rearrangements- SO2 addition to triene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] Ketene kinetic product
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] photochemical cycloaddition
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] photochemical cycloaddition (regiochemistry)
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] thermochemical cycloaddition - in terms of Diels-Alder followed by Claisen
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] thermochemical cycloaddition - ketene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] thermochemical cycloaddition - ketene- regio and stereoselectivity
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [2+2] thermochemical cycloaddition - ketene- regio and stereoselectivity in terms of orbitals
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] 1,3-dipoles- Azomethane ylids
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] 1,3-dipoles- Nitrones
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] 1,3-dipoles- Ozone
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] Alder ene reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] cycloaddition- allyl anion-alkene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] cycloaddition- allyl cation-diene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] cycloaddition- oxyallyl-diene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] Diels-Alder- diene dimerisation
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] Ene with carbonyl
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2] Singlet oxygen
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2]- Endo effect described multicenter H-bonding with cyclopropene
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2]- Endo effect described using charge
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2]- Hetero Diels Alder reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [4+2]- intramolecular Diels Alder- increased rate
Pericyclic reactions- Cycloadditions- [6+4] cycloheptatrienone with cyclopentadiene
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- cyclopropyl hydrolysis
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- fused bicyclic cyclopropyl halide opening
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- Nazarov cyclisation- anionic
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- Nazarov cyclisation- cationic
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring closing of trans-3,4-dimethylcyclobutane
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring closing of 1,3,5-pentatriene
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring closing of 1,3-butadiene (photochemical)
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring closing of 1,3-butadiene (thermal)
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring opening of azidiridines
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring opening of cyclopropanones
Pericyclic reactions- Electrocyclic- ring opening reaction of carbene
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Alder-ene reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Carbonyl in ene reaction (transannular)
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Chugaev reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- enol
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Metalla-ene reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Orbital description
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- Retro-ene reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Ene- SeO2 to hydroxylate in allylic position
Pericyclic reactions- Group transfer- Aromaticity driving force
Pericyclic reactions- Group transfer- Di-imide and alkene
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmaotropic rearrangements- [2,3]- alkyl shift- Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,2] anionic alkyl shift
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,2]- alkyl shift
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,3] rearrangement (thermal)
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,3]- alkyl shift- bicyclic
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,4]- alkyl shift- bicyclic cyclopropyl cation
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,5] sigmatropic rearrangement- stereoselectivity
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,5]-hydride alkyl shift in spiropentadiene
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [1,5]-hydride shift in substituted cyclopentadiene
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [2,3]- alkyl shift- Wittig rearrangement
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [2,3]- orbitals
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [2,3]- rearrangement- allylic ether from Hg(OAc)2, allylic alcohol and masked aldehdye
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Anionic Oxycope rearrangement
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Carroll Rearrangement
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- chair transition states
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Claisen
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Claisen with aromatic system
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Claisen-Ireland rearrangement
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Cope reaction
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- demonstration of Woodward-Hoffmann rules
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Johnson orthoester-Claisen
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- Meerwein-Eschenmoser Claisen
Pericyclic reactions- Sigmatropic rearrangements- [3,3]- via boat transition state
Phosphorous- alkynes from acyloin reaction
Phosphorous- Barton alkene synthesis
Phosphorous- deoxygenation of ozonolysis product
Phosphorous- epoxide to form trans ring alkene (cyclo-octene)
Phosphorous- Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Phosphorous- hydrolysis of phosphonium salts to form phosphine oxides
Phosphorous- Perkow reaction
Phosphorous- Schlosser modification of Wittig reaction to give E-alkene
Phosphorous- sulphur epoxide analogue opening
Phosphorous- Wittig reaction to form alkyne
Phosphorous- Wittig with ester
Phosphorous- Wittig- intramolecular
Phosphorous- [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement to form P-C bond
Phosphorus- Arbuzov reaction
Phosphorus- Mitsonobu reaction- activation of alcohol
Phosphorus- tandem Staudinger-Wittig
Phosphorus- Wittig reaction (kinetic control)
Reactive intermediates- Bis cycloheptene with with OTs leaving group
Rearrangements - Arndt Eistert
Rearrangements - Bayer-Villiger
Rearrangements - Bayer-Villiger (effects of stereochemistry)
Rearrangements - Beckmann
Rearrangements - Benzylic acid
Rearrangements - Dienone-phenol
Rearrangements - Favorskii Rearrangement (Carbanion)
Rearrangements - Stevens rearrangement
Rearrangements- Addition of DBr to bicyclic alkene
Rearrangements- amines from acyl chlorides- Curtius rearrangement
Rearrangements- Beckmann fragmentation (of oxime)
Rearrangements- Benzidine rearrangement- (hydrazobenzine to benzidine)
Rearrangements- Bicyclic epoxide to aldehyde
Rearrangements- Eschenmoser Fragmentation
Rearrangements- Methyl shifts in turpenes- Nametkin rearrangement
Rearrangements- Multiple Wagner-Meerwein shift
Rearrangements- Neber rearrangement (Beckmann in the presence of base to form amine)
Rearrangements- Payne Rearrangement hydroxy group alpha to epoxide
Rearrangements- Pinacol
Rearrangements- Pinacol with epoxide
Rearrangements- Ramberg Backland Rearrangement
Rearrangements- Ring expansion
Rearrangements- Schmidt reaction (HN3, ketone and acid)
Rearrangements- Semipinacol Rearrangement
Rearrangements- Shapiro reaction
Rearrangements- t-butyl group next to electrophilic centre
Rearrangements- Wagner-Meerwein
Rearrangements- Wittig Rearrangement- ether to alcohol
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to ketone using CrO3
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to aldehyde (DCC)- Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to carbonyl- bromine water
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to carbonyl- Dess Martin
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to carbonyl- Oppenauer
Redox- Oxidation- alcohol to carbonyl- Swern Oxidation
Redox- Oxidation- Aldehyde to carboxylic acid using CrO3
Redox- Oxidation- alkene using Pb(OAc)4
Redox- Oxidation- alkenes to ketones (Wacker)
Redox- Oxidation- alkenes using SeO2 to form allylic alcohol
Redox- Oxidation- autoxidation using O2
Redox- Oxidation- formation of PCC (CrO3 equivalent)
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of alkene to alcohol and amine using osmium compund
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of alkene to alcohol and amine using Sharpless method
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of alkene to allylic alcohol using CrO3
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of alkene to diol using OsO4
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of alpha-hydroxy carboxylic acid to aldehyde
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of cyclohexene to cyclopentane aldehyde uisng thallium
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of diol to dialdehyde using NaIO4
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of diol using Pb(OAc)4
Redox- Oxidation- oxidation of phenol using Fe(III)
Redox- Oxidation- reaction of diol with CrO3
Redox- Oxidation- SeO2 oxidation of ketone
Redox- Reduction- Birch reduction of benzene
Redox- Reduction- Birch reduction- with carbonyl functional group
Redox- Reduction- Diborane reduction of carboxylic acids/amides
Redox- Reduction- Evans- beta hydroxy-ketone to 1,3-diol
Redox- Reduction- metal ammonia reduction of alpha-beta unsaturated ketone (trans-decalin)
Redox- Reduction- methylation of amines using formaldehyde and formic acid (Eschweiler-Clark)
Redox- Reduction- Red-Al? reduction of alkyne
Redox- Reduction- reduction of ester to ketone using DIBAL-H
Redox- Reduction- reduction of ketone- Meerwein-Pondorf-Verley reaction
Ring synthesis- 1,3-dipole ring synthesis
Ring synthesis- Diels Alder reaction
Ring synthesis- Diels Alder to form five membered ring
Ring synthesis- ring expansion- Demjanov reaction
Ring synthesis- ring expansion- Schmidtt reaction
Silicon- Acyloin ring synthesis
Silicon- Allyl silanes- formation
Silicon- Allyl silanes- reaction with acetals
Silicon- Allyl silanes- reaction with acyl chloride
Silicon- Allyl silanes- reaction with electrophiles
Silicon- Allyl silanes- reaction with t-butyl-chloride
Silicon- Baeyer Villiger rearrangement
Silicon- formation of masked enolates
Silicon- Paterson reaction to form alkenes from silyl stabilised carbanions
Silicon- Paterson reaction- homologation of aldehydes
Silicon- Reaction of masked enolate with electrophile
Silicon- TMS as alcohol protecting group
Silicon- TMS removal to give alcohol
Silicon- Vinyl silanes- formation of cis vinyl silanes
Silicon- Vinyl silanes- formation of trans vinyl silanes
Silicon- Vinyl silanes- reaction with electrophiles
Singlet Oxygen- Diels Alder type reaction with diene
Singlet Oxygen- Ene reaction
Singlet Oxygen- Preparation from dioxygen bridged napthalene
Singlet Oxygen- Preparation from photosensitiser
Singlet Oxygen- [2,2] cylcoaddition to alkene
Spectroscopy- IR
Spectroscopy- Mass spectrometry- Common fragmentations
Spectroscopy- NMR
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Asymmetric synthesis- Stereocontrol of ester enolate formation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Asymmetric synthesis- Stereocontrol of ketone enolate formation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Asymmetric synthesis- Stereoselecitivty of enolate with aldehdye (Zimmerman-Traxler)
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Asymmetric synthesis- Stereoselecitivty using boron enolates
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Non-linear- SN1 reaction
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Acid-base catalysis- epoxide opening
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Acid-base catalysis- hydrolysis with intramolecular proton transfer
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Acid-base catalysis- intramolecular proton transfer
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Asymmetric epoxidation using bleach and manganese macrocycle
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Electrophile mediated cyclisation- cascade
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Ene mediated cyclisation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Epoxidation- hydrogen bonding control
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- AcOH and I2 (Prevost Woodward reaction)
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Sharpless epoxidation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to alkenes- Simmons-Smith cyclopropanation- chelation control
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Aldol reaction
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Asymmetric reduction
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Asymmetric reduction- chiral catalyst
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Asymmetric reduction- liver alcohol dehydrogenase
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Chelation control
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Felkin-Anh model
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Felkin-Anh model
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Addition to carbonyls- Felkin-Anh model with electronegative group
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Gauche effect with dioxane
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Amide formation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Non-linear- acyl chloride hydrolysis
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Non-linear- change in RDS
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Non-linear- change in RDS- imine formation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- Non-linear- Neighbouring group participation
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- SN1 reaction
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Hammett equation- SN2 reaction
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- lone pair acceleration of hydrolysis
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- lone pair acceleration of hydrolysis- 1,3-allylic strain
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- lone pair acceleration of hydrolysis- kinetic vs. thermodynamic
Stereoselectivity and mechanism- Pyranose lone pair acceleration of hydrolysis
Strategies in synthesis- Alkenes- Modified Julia Olefination- Julia-Kocieński
Strategies in synthesis- Chemoselectivity- 1,2-reduction of alpha,beta-unsaturated ketone- Luche reaction (CeCl3)
Strategies in synthesis- Functional group interconversions- Corey-Fuchs reaction- aldehdye to alkyne (CBr4 PPh3)
Strategies in synthesis- Protecting groups- Protection of PhOH using azomethane
Strategies in synthesis- Protecting groups- use of TBSCl to protect most hindered alcohol
Sulphur- Corey-Winter reaction- diol to alkene
Sulphur- disulphides - reaction with sulphuryl chloride (SO2Cl2)
Sulphur- oxidation of sulphide to sulphoxide using NaIO4
Sulphur- Pummerer allylation
Sulphur- sulphide- hydrogenation with Raney Nickel
Sulphur- sulphides- formation of three membered rings from allyl sulphide and michael acceptor
Sulphur- sulphides- Pummerer reaction to form chlorosulphides
Sulphur- sulphides- reaction of allyl sulphide with electrophile
Sulphur- sulphides- reaction of beta-stabilised carbocation to form alkene
Sulphur- sulphides- Swern oxidation- alcohol to aldehyde
Sulphur- sulphones - stabilised anion as nucleophile
Sulphur- sulphones- Julia Olefin synthesis
Sulphur- sulphonium saltes- preparation from sulphide and MeI
Sulphur- sulphonium salts- intramolecular reaction with electrophile
Sulphur- sulphonium ylids- epoxides from sulphonium ylids
Sulphur- sulphoxide- ylid to cyclise (ninhydrin formation)
Sulphur- sulphoxide- ylid with sigmatropic rearrangement
Sulphur- sulphoxide- [2,3] sigma-tropic shift
Sulphur- sulphoxides- allylic sulphoxide rearrangement to sulphenate ester
Sulphur- sulphoxides- elimination
Sulphur- sulphoxides- Pummerer reaction
Sulphur- sulphoxides- Pummerer reaction- electrophilic aromatic substitution
Sulphur- sulponium ylids- (stabilised) conjugate addition
Sulphur- thioacetal- ketone fragmentation
Sulphur- thioacetals- formation from formaldehyde
Sulphur- thioacetals- hydrolysis using HgCl2
Sulphur- thioacetals- hydrolysis via methylation
Sulphur- thioacetals- hydrolysis via oxidation
Sulphur- thiol chlorides - electrophilic addition to alkene
Sulphur- thiol- acting as nucleophile
Sulphur- TsCl as nucloeophile- reaction with Zn
Transition metal chemistry- Molybdenum and Ruthenium- Cross-metathesis (CM)
Transition metal chemistry- Molybdenum and Ruthenium- Ring closing metathesis (RCM)
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Buchwald-Hartwig coupling- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Conversion of Pd(II) to Pd(0)
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- alkene isomerisation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- alkene isomerisation to give thermodynamic product
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- catalytic cycle (with silver salt)
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- cyclisation with alkene isomerisation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- enantioselective
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- intramolecular endo cyclisation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- intramolecular exo cyclisation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- regioselectivity in carbopalladation step
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Heck- tandem reaction
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Hiyama- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Sonogashira- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Sonogashira- catalytic cycle (with CuI catalyst)
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Stille- carbonylation using CO
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Stille- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Stille- no beta hydrogens present after carbopalladation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Stille- retention of configuration in transmetallation step
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Suzuki- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Tsuji-Trost- catalytic cycle
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Tsuji-Trost- cycloaddition (formation of 1,3-dipole equivalent)
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Tsuji-Trost- nucleophilic attack of vinyl epoxides
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Tsuji-Trost- stereochemistry of allylic substitution
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Wacker- cyclisation
Transition metal chemistry- Palladium- Wacker- H2O as nucleophile