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STRATEGIC APPLICATIONS OF NAMED REACTIONS IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS By Laszlo Kurti & Barbara Czako

 

Strategic applications of named reactions in organic synthesis, 

written by L. Kurti and B. Czako gives a detailed description, 

background, mechanism, and applications of named reactions 

commonly used in organic synthesis.


The book is a combination of 250 named reactions, arranged 

alphabetically and compiled from a comprehensive and recent 

literature.


A highly recommended book for research scholars working on 

synthetic organic chemistry.

LIST OF NAMED REACTIONS

Acetoacetic Ester Synthesis

Acyloin Condensation

Alder (Ene) Reaction (Hydro-Allyl Addition) 

Aldol Reaction

Alkene (Olefin) Metathesis

Alkyne Metathesis

Amadori Reaction/Rearrangement

Arbuzov Reaction (Michaelis-Arbuzov Reaction)

Arndt-Eistert Homologation/Synthesis

Aza-Claisen Rearrangement (3-Aza-Cope Rearrangement)

Aza-Cope Rearrangement

Aza-Wittig Reaction

Aza-[2,3]-Wittig Rearrangement

Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation/Rearrangement

Baker-Venkataraman Rearrangement

Baldwin’s Rules/Guidelines for Ring-Closing Reactions

Balz-Schiemann Reaction (Schiemann

Bamford-Stevens-Shapiro Olefination

Barbier Coupling Reaction

Bartoli Indole synthesis

Barton Nitrite Ester

Barton Radical Decarboxylation

Barton-McCombie Radical Deoxygenation Reaction

Baylis-Hillman Reaction

Beckmann Rearrangement

Benzilic Acid Rearrangement

Benzoin and Retro-Benzoin Condensation

Bergman Cycloaromatization Reaction

Biginelli Reaction

Birch Reduction

Bischler-Napieralski Isoquinoline Synthesis

Brook Rearrangement

Brown Hydroboration Reaction 

Buchner Method of Ring Expansion (Buchner Reaction) 

Buchwald-Hartwig Cross-Coupling 

Burgess Dehydration Reaction

Cannizzaro Reaction

Carroll Rearrangement (Kimel-Cope Rearrangement)

Castro-Stephens Coupling 

Chichibabin Amination Reaction (Chichibabin Reaction) 

Chugaev Elimination Reaction (Xanthate Ester Pyrolysis)

Ciamician-Dennstedt Rearrangement 

Claisen Condensation/Claisen Reaction 

Claisen Rearrangement 

Claisen-Ireland Rearrangement 

Clemmensen Reduction

Combes Quinoline Synthesis 

Cope Elimination / Cope Reaction 

Cope Rearrangement

Corey-Bakshi-Shibata Reduction (CBS Reduction) 

Corey-Chaykovsky Epoxidation and Cyclopropanation

Corey-Fuchs Alkyne Synthesis 

Corey-Kim Oxidation 

Corey-Nicolaou Macrolactonization

Corey-Winter Olefination

Cornforth Rearrangement 

Criegee Oxidation 

Curtius Rearrangement

Dakin Oxidation

Dakin-West Reaction 

Danheiser Benzannulation 

Danheiser Cyclopentene Annulation 

Danishefsky’s Diene Cycloaddition 

Darzens Glycidic Ester Condensation

Davis' Oxaziridine Oxidations

De Mayo Cycloaddition (Enone-Alkene [2+2] Photocycloaddition) 

Demjanov Rearrangement and Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement 

Dess-Martin Oxidation

Dieckmann Condensation 

Diels-Alder Cycloaddition 

Dienone-Phenol Rearrangement

Dimroth Rearrangement

Doering-LaFlamme Allene Synthesis 

Dötz Benzannulation Reaction

Enders SAMP/RAMP Hydrazone Alkylation

Enyne Metathesis

Eschenmoser Methenylation

Eschenmoser-Claisen Rearrangement 

Eschenmoser-Tanabe Fragmentation

Eschweiler-Clarke Methylation (Reductive Alkylation) 

Evans Aldol Reaction 

Favorskii and Homo-Favorskii Rearrangement

Feist-Bénary Furan Synthesis

Ferrier Reaction/Rearrangement

Finkelstein Reaction

Fischer Indole Synthesis 

Fleming-Tamao Oxidation

Friedel-Crafts Acylation

Friedel-Crafts Alkylation 

Fries-, Photo-Fries, and Anionic Ortho-Fries Rearrangement

Gabriel Synthesis 

Gattermann and Gattermann-Koch Formylation 

Glaser Coupling 

Grignard Reaction 

Grob Fragmentation 

Hajos-Parrish Reaction 

Hantzsch Dihydropyridine Synthesis

Heck Reaction

Heine Reaction

Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky Reaction

Henry Reaction 

Hetero Diels-Alder Cycloaddition (HDA) 

Hofmann Elimination 

Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag Reaction (Remote Functionalization) 

Hofmann Rearrangement

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Olefination

Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Olefination – Still-Gennari Modification 

Houben-Hoesch Reaction/Synthesis

Hunsdiecker Reaction 

Jacobsen Hydrolytic Kinetic Resolution

Jacobsen-Katsuki Epoxidation 

Japp-Klingemann Reaction 

Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement

Jones Oxidation/Oxidation of Alcohols by Chromium Reagents 

Julia-Lythgoe Olefination

Kagan-Molander Samarium Diiodide-Mediated Coupling 

Kahne Glycosidation 

Keck Asymmetric Allylation 

Keck Macrolactonization 

Keck Radical Allylation

Knoevenagel Condensation 

Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis 

Koenigs-Knorr Glycosidation

Kolbe-Schmitt Reaction

Kornblum Oxidation

Krapcho Dealkoxycarbonylation (Krapcho reaction) 

Kröhnke Pyridine Synthesis 

Kulinkovich Reaction

Kumada Cross-Coupling 

Larock Indole Synthesis 

Ley Oxidation 

Lieben Haloform Reaction

Lossen Rearrangement


Luche Reduction 

Madelung Indole Synthesis 

Malonic Ester Synthesis

Mannich Reaction 

McMurry Coupling

Meerwein Arylation

Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction 

Meisenheimer Rearrangement

Meyer-Schuster and Rupe Rearrangement 

Michael Addition Reaction

Midland Alpine Borane Reduction 

Minisci Reaction 

Mislow-Evans Rearrangement 

Mitsunobu Reaction 

Miyaura Boration 

Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction

Myers Asymmetric Alkylation 

Nagata Hydrocyanation

Nazarov Cyclization 

Neber Rearrangement 

Nef Reaction 

Negishi Cross-Coupling 

Nenitzescu Indole Synthesis 

Nicholas Reaction 

Noyori Asymmetric Hydrogenation

Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction

Oppenauer Oxidation 

Overman Rearrangement 

Oxy-Cope Rearrangement and Anionic Oxy-Cope Rearrangement

Paal-Knorr Furan Synthesis 

Paal-Knorr Pyrrole Synthesis 

Passerini Multicomponent Reaction 

Paterno-Büchi Reaction 

Pauson-Khand Reaction 

Payne Rearrangement 

Perkin Reaction

Petasis Boronic Acid-Mannich Reaction 

Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement

Peterson Olefination

Pfitzner-Moffatt Oxidation

Pictet-Spengler Tetrahydroisoquinoline Synthesis 

Pinacol and Semipinacol Rearrangement 

Pinner Reaction

Pinnick Oxidation 

Polonovski Reaction

Pomeranz-Fritsch Reaction

Prévost Reaction

Prilezhaev Reaction 

Prins Reaction

Prins-Pinacol Rearrangement 

Pummerer Rearrangement 

Quasi-Favorskii Rearrangement 

Ramberg-Bäcklund Rearrangement

Reformatsky Reaction

Regitz Diazo Transfer 

Reimer-Tiemann Reaction 

Riley Selenium Dioxide Oxidation 

Ritter Reaction 

Robinson Annulation

Roush Asymmetric Allylation

Rubottom Oxidation 

Saegusa Oxidation

Sakurai Allylation

Sandmeyer Reaction

Schmidt Reaction 

Schotten-Baumann Reaction 

Schwartz Hydrozirconation 

Seyferth-Gilbert Homologation

Sharpless Asymmetric Aminohydroxylation 

Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation 

Sharpless Asymmetric Epoxidation

Shi Asymmetric Epoxidation 

Simmons-Smith Cyclopropanation 

Skraup and Doebner-Miller Quinoline Synthesis

Smiles Rearrangement 

Smith-Tietze Multicomponent Dithiane Linchpin Coupling 

Snieckus Directed Ortho Metalation

Sommelet-Hauser Rearrangement 

Sonogashira Cross-Coupling 

Staudinger Ketene Cycloaddition 

Staudinger Reaction

Stephen Aldehyde Synthesis (Stephen Reduction)

Stetter Reaction 

Stevens Rearrangement

Stille Carbonylative Cross-Coupling

Stille Cross-Coupling (Migita-Kosugi-Stille Coupling)

Stille-Kelly Coupling 

Stobbe Condensation

Stork Enamine Synthesis 

Strecker Reaction

Suzuki Cross-Coupling (Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling) 

Swern Oxidation

Takai-Utimoto Olefination (Takai Reaction) 

Tebbe Olefination/Petasis-Tebbe Olefination

Tishchenko Reaction

Tsuji-Trost Reaction/Allylation

Tsuji-Wilkinson Decarbonylation Reaction 

Ugi Multicomponent Reaction 

Ullmann Biaryl Ether and Biaryl Amine Synthesis/Condensation

Ullmann Reaction/Coupling/Biaryl Synthesis 

Vilsmeier-Haack Formylation 

Vinylcyclopropane-Cyclopentene Rearrangement 

von Pechman Reaction 

Wacker Oxidation

Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement

Weinreb Ketone Synthesis.478

Wharton Fragmentation 

Wharton Olefin Synthesis (Wharton Transposition) 

Williamson Ether Synthesis

Wittig Reaction 

Wittig Reaction - Schlosser Modification 

Wittig-[1,2]- and [2,3]-Rearrangement

Wohl-Ziegler Bromination

Wolff Rearrangement 

Wolff-Kishner Reduction 

Wurtz Coupling

Yamaguchi Macrolactonization 

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