Organic Reactions and Their Mechanisms

Contents:

Preface • Introduction
Chapter: A-D Organic Naming Reactions:

A

Achmatowicz Reaction • Acyloin Condensation • Aldol Condensation • Alkyne Zipper Reaction • Appel Reaction

B

Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation • Baker-Venkataraman Rearrangement • Barton Decarboxylation • Barton Vinyl Iodide Synthesis • Barton-McCombie Deoxygenation • Baylis-Hillman Reaction • Beckmann Rearrangement • Benzoin Condensation • Betti Reaction • Birch Reduction • Bischler-Napieralski Reaction • Blaise Reaction • Blanc Halomethylation • Bogert-Cook Synthesis • Bradsher Cycloaddition • Brook Rearrangement • Buchwald-Hartwig Coupling • Burgess Dehydration

C

Chan Rearrangement • Charette Asymmetric Cyclopropanation •  Chugaev Elimination • Claisen Condensation • Claisen Rearrangement • Claisen-Schmidt Condensation • Clemmensen Reduction • Collins Reaction • Conrad-Limpach Synthesis • Cope Elimination • Cope Rearrangement • Corey-Fuchs Reaction • Corey-Itsuno Reduction • Corey-Kim Oxidation • Corey-Nicolaou Macrolactonization • Corey-House Synthesis • Corey-Seebach Reaction • Corey-Winter Olefin Synthesis • Criegee Mechanism • Curtius Rearrangement

D

Dakin-West Reaction • Danheiser Benzannulation • Darzens Reaction • Davis Asymmetric Hydroxylation • DeMayo Reaction • Dess-Martin Oxidation • Dieckmann Condensation • Diels-Alder Reaction • Doebner-Miller Reaction • Duff Reaction

Chapter: E-H Organic Naming Reactions

E

Ene Reaction • Eschenmoser Fragmentation • Eschenmoser Sulfide Contraction • Eschenmoser-Claisen Rearrangement • Eschweiler-Clarke Reaction • Evans Asymmetric Aldol Addition • Evans-Mislow Rearrangement

F

Favorskii Rearrangement • Finkelstein Reaction • Fischer-Speier Esterification • Fischer Indole Synthesis • Fleming-Tamao Oxidation • Friedel-Crafts Reaction • Friedel-Crafts Alkylation • Friedaender Synthesis • Fries Rearrangement • Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell Rearrangement • Fujimoto-Belleau Reaction • Fukuyama Indole Synthesis

G

Ganem Oxidation • Glaser-Hay Coupling • Goldberg Reaction • Grieco Dehydration • Grignard Reaction • Grob Fragmentation

H

Hanessian-Hullar Reaction • Heck Coupling Reaction • Hemetsberger Indole Synthesis • Henry Reaction • Hofmann Elimination • Hofmann-L--ffler-Freytag Reaction • Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons Reaction • Hosomi-Sakurai Reaction • Houben-Hoesch Reaction • Huisgen Cycloaddition

Chapter : I-L Organic Naming Reactions

I

Ireland-Claisen Rearrangement

J

Japp-Klingemann Reaction • Johnson-Claisen Rearrangement • Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky Reaction • Jones Oxidation • Julia-Lythgoe Olefination • Julia-Kocienski Olefination

K

Keck Allylation • Knoevenagel Condensation • Kochi Reaction • Kornblum Oxidation • Krapcho Decarboxylation • Kucherov Reaction • Kumada-Corriu Coupling

L

Larock Indole Synthesis • Leimgruber-Batcho Indole Synthesis • Lemieux-Johnson Oxidation • Ley-Griffith Oxidation • Liebeskind-Srogl Coupling • Lobry de Bruyn-van Ekenstein Transformation • Lombardo Methylenation • Luche Reduction

Chapter : M-P Organic Naming Reactions

M

Madelung Indole Synthesis • Maitland-Japp Condensation • Mannich Reaction • Mark---Lam Deoxygenation • McMurry Reaction • Michael Addition • Michaelis-Arbuzov Reaction • Mitsunobu Reaction • Mukaiyama Aldol Addition • Mukaiyama Hydration • Myers Asymmetric Alkylation

N

Nazarov Cyclization Reaction • Neber Rearrangement • Nef Reaction • Negishi Coupling • Nenitzescu Indole Synthesis • Nicholas Reaction • Norrish Reaction • Noyori Asymmetric Hydrogenation • Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi Reaction

O

Olefin metathesis • Oppenauer Oxidation • Overman Rearrangement

P

Paal-Knorr Synthesis • Parikh-Doering Oxidation • Passerini Reaction • Patern---B--chi reaction • Pauson-Khand Reaction • Payne Rearrangement • Pechmann Condensation • Petasis-Ferrier Rearrangement • Peterson Olefination • Petrenko-Kritschenko Piperidone Synthesis • Pfitzner-Moffatt Oxidation • Pictet-Spengler Reaction • Pinacol Coupling Reaction • Pinacol Rearrangement • Pinner Reaction • Pinnick Oxidation • Polonovski-Potier Reaction • Pomeranz-Fritsch Isoquinoline Reaction • Prilezhaev Reaction • Prins Reaction • Pummerer Rearrangement

Chapter : R-U Organic Naming Reactions

R

Ramberg-B--cklund Reaction • Robinson Annulation • Rosenmund-von Braun Reaction • Rubottom Oxidation • Reformatsky Reaction • Reimer-Tiemann Formylation

S

Saegusa-Ito Oxidation • Sandmeyer Reaction • Schlosser Modification • Schmidt Reaction • Schotten-Baumann Reaction • Semi-Pinacol Rearrangement • Semmler-Wolff Reaction • Seyferth-Gilbert Homologation (Bestmann-Ohira Reagent) • Shapiro Reaction • Sharpless Asymmetric Dihydroxylation • Sharpless Epoxidation • Simmons-Smith Reaction • Smiles Rearrangement • Sommelet Reaction • Sonogashira Coupling • Staudinger Reaction • Steglich Esterification • Stille Coupling • Stobbe Condensation • Stork Enamine Alkylation • Suzuki Coupling • Swern Oxidation

T

Takai Olefination • Tebbe-Petasis Olefination • Thorpe-Ziegler Reaction • Tiffeneau-Demjanov Rearrangement • Tollens- Oxidation Test • Tsuji-Trost Reaction

U

Ugi Reaction • Ullmann Reaction • Upjohn Dihydroxylation

Chapter : V-Z Organic Naming Reactions

V

Van Leusen Reaction • Vilsmeier-Haack Reaction

W

Wacker Oxidation • Weinreb Ketone Synthesis • Weiss-Cook Condensation • Wharton Reaction • Willgerodt-Kindler Reaction • Williamson Ether Synthesis • Wittig Reaction • Wittig Rearrangement-[,] • Wohl-Ziegler Reaction • Wolff Rearrangement • Wolff-Kishner Reduction • Wulff-D--tz Reaction

Y

Yamaguchi Esterification • Yamada-Okamoto Purine Synthesis

Z

Zincke Reaction • Zimmermann Reaction

 

About the Authors:
Dr. A. Mohamed Sikkander is working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India. He received his Ph.D - Electro analytical studies of organic drugs, area of Electro Organic chemistry, from Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. He is passionate, innovative, enthusiastic and curious in Organic chemistry, Electro Organic chemistry, Analytical chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Nano Chemistry, Computational chemistry, Medicinal chemistry and polymer chemistry.
Dr. Noor Shawal Nasri is currently serving as a Director, UTM-MPRC Institute for Oil and Gas, N29A, Lengkuk Suria, University Technology Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. He received his Ph.D - Fuel And Energy (Catalytic Combustion), area of Petroleum Engineering, from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His areas of expertise: Sustainable and green material for specialty chemicals, environmental applications and anticorrosion, Catalyst enhancing development for environmental application system (principle of catalytic combustion), Energy optimization based on integration technology development for cogeneration & trigeneration application system, Bio-Fuel Development Integration Combustion Performance of Primary Hydrocarbon and Bio-Fuel Mixture, Conventional Combustion-Generated Pollution Control, and Gas Cryogenic Processing.