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Reactions and synthesis

Organic reactions

Redox reactions

Other reactions

Synthetic strategies

1,2-rearrangement

Organic reaction

Acid–base reaction

Chemical reaction

Class of substitution reactions involving nucleophiles and acyl compounds

Addition reaction

Chemical reaction where two or more molecules combine to form a larger one (the adduct)

Aldol condensation

Type of chemical reaction

Allylic rearrangement

Technique to describe progression of organic chemistry reaction mechanisms

Process of liquifying sugar

Sequence of reactions

Abstraction of an atom from another molecule by the radical end of a growing chain-polymer

Chain-growth polymerization

Polymerization technique

Chemical decomposition

Breakdown of a single entity (normal molecule, reaction intermediate, etc.) into two or more fragments; opposite or reverse process of a synthesis reaction

Chemical reaction

Chemical reaction with at least one reaction intermediate and involving at least two consecutive elementary reactions

Chemical reaction

Convergent synthesis

Gradual destruction of materials by chemical reaction with its environment

Cracking (chemistry)

Thermal or catalytic decomposition of a compound such as a hydrocarbon into chemical species of smaller molecular weight

Organic chemical reaction

Destructive distillation

Process of decomposition of organic material by heating it in the absence of air.

Diels–Alder reaction

Chemical reaction

Disproportionation

Redox reaction in which a chemical species of intermediate oxidation state is converted into two different species of higher and lower oxidation states

Dissociation (chemistry)

General process in which molecules (or ionic compounds such as salts, or complexes) separate or split into smaller particles such as atoms, ions or radicals, usually in a reversible manner

Divergent synthesis

Method of chemical research

E1cB-elimination reaction

Elimination reaction which occurs under basic conditions where the hydrogen to be removed is relatively acidic, while the leaving group is a relatively poor one

Reaction mechanism in organic chemistry

Technique in chemistry and manufacturing

Electrophilic addition

Chemical reaction

Electrophilic substitution

Chemical reactions in which an electrophile displaces a functional group in a compound, which is typically, but not always, a hydrogen atom.

Electrosynthesis

Chemical process

Elementary reaction

Single-step chemical reaction

Elimination reaction

Type of organic reaction in which two substituents are removed from a molecule in either a one or two-step mechanism

Emulsion polymerization

Polymerization technique

Enantioselective synthesis

Form of chemical synthesis

Free-radical addition

Addition reaction in organic chemistry involving free radicals

Grignard reaction

Organometallic coupling reaction

Main process of ammonia production

Redox reaction component

Haloform reaction

Chemical reaction

Chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen and another compound or element

Cleavage of chemical bonds by the addition of water

Process by which a molecule is transformed into a molecule with exactly the same atoms, but the atoms are rearranged

Kipp's apparatus

Laboratory device for preparing gases.

Molecular fragment that departs with a pair of electrons in heterolytic bond cleavage

Maillard reaction

Chemical reaction occurring when roasting, baking, or frying

Nucleophilic addition

Addition reaction where a chemical compound with an electron-deficient or electrophilic double or triple bond, a π bond,reacts with electron-rich reactant (nucleophile),with disappearance of the double bond and creation of two new single, or σ, bonds

Nucleophilic aromatic substitution

Substitution reaction in organic chemistry

Nucleophilic substitution

Class of chemical reactions

Olefin metathesis

Redistribution of olefinic (alkene) bonds

One-pot synthesis

Organic reaction

Chemical reactions involving organic compounds

Organic synthesis

Chemical construction of organic compounds

Oxidation state

Number that describes the degree of oxidation of an atom in a chemical compound; the hypothetical charge that an atom would have if all bonds to atoms of different elements were fully ionic

Oxidizing agent

Chemical compound used to oxidize another substance in a chemical reaction

Pericyclic reaction

Class of chemical reactions

Chemical reaction to form polymer chains

Precipitation (chemistry)

Chemical process leading to the settling of an insoluble solid from a solution

Thermal decomposition of materials at elevated temperatures in an inert atmosphere

Radical (chemistry)

Atom, molecule, or ion that has an unpaired valence electron; typically highly reactive

Radical polymerization

Polymerization process involving free radicals as repeating units

Reaction intermediate

Molecular entity formed as an elementary step in a multi-step chemical reaction

Reaction mechanism

Any model explaining a chemical reaction

Rearrangement reaction

Chemical reaction where a molecule is turned into a structural isomer of itself

Chemical reaction in which oxidation states of atoms are changed

Element or compound that loses (or "donates") an electron to another chemical species in a redox chemical reaction

Retrosynthetic analysis

Technique for solving problems in the planning of organic syntheses

Reversible reaction

Reaction where the reactants form products, which react together to give the reactants back

Ring-opening polymerization

Polymerization of cyclic monomers into a polymer with fewer cycles

Type of iron oxide

Salt metathesis reaction

Chemical reaction involving exchange of bonds between four species or functional groups

Type of chemical synthesis

Substitution reaction with a carbocation intermediate

A substitution reaction where bonds are broken and formed simultaneously

Topics referred to by the same term

Step-growth polymerization

Polymerization mechanism

Substitution reaction

Chemical reaction during which one functional group in a chemical compound is replaced by another functional group

Corrosion on outer layer of some metals

Thermal decomposition

Chemical decomposition caused by heat

Total synthesis

The complete organic synthesis of complex organic compounds, usually without the aid of biological processes

Water–gas shift reaction

Chemical reaction

Wittig reaction

Chemical reaction