Organic reaction
Organic reactions are chemical reactions between organic compounds.
The number of possible organic reactions is basically infinite. However, certain general patterns are observed that can be used to describe many common or useful reactions. Each reaction has a Addition reactions (including hydrogenation reactions)
- Elimination reactions
- Substitution reactions
- Oxidation reactions
- Condensation reactions
- Reduction reaction
- Polymerization reactions
- addition of HX to an alkene, halogen addition reaction, halohydrin formation reaction, oxymercuration reaction, hydroboration-oxidation reaction, hydrooxylation reaction, ozonolysis reaction, nucleophilic substitution, halogenation of an alkyl, hydration and dehydration.
Here is a series of reactions that a chemist can perform to change molecules in a defined way:
Beckmann rearrangement, Friedel-Crafts alkylation and acylation, Gilman reagent, Grignard reagent, Diels-Alder reaction, Pinner reaction, Sharpless epoxidation, Sharpless bishydroxylation, Swern oxidation
As seen here, specific reactions are sometimes named after the chemist who developed them.
