First year mechanisms:
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      Aromatic
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      Conjugate Addition
      Enols and Enolates
      Epoxides
      Nucleophilic addition
      Nucleophilic Substitution
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First Year Mechanisms
Displaying 116 mechanisms:
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- alinine preparation
Aromatic- azo salts to CN, Br, Cl (Sand-Meyer)
Aromatic- formation of azo salts
Aromatic- formation of benzoic acid
Aromatic- Friedel-crafts acylation
Aromatic- Friedel-crafts alkylation
Aromatic- Gatterman-Koch formylation (adding aldehyde to benzene ring)
Aromatic- halogenation
Aromatic- Nitration
Aromatic- Phenol preparation from azo-salts and water
Aromatic- Sulphonation
Biological Chemistry- formation of glycosidic bond
Biological Chemistry- RNA hydrolysis
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
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)
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
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- 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