I don't have my name on anything that I don't really do. -Heidi Klum Can the organic chemists associated with so-called "Named Reactions" make the same claim as supermodel Heidi Klum? Many scholars of chemistry do not hesi- te to point out that the names associated with "name reactions" are often not the actual inventors. For instance, the Arndt-Eistert reaction has nothing to do with either Arndt or Eistert, Pummerer did not discover the "Pummerer" rearran- ment, and even the famous Birch reduction owes its initial discovery to someone named Charles Wooster (first reported in a DuPont patent). The list goes on and on... But does that mean we should ignore, boycott, or outlaw "named reac- ons"? Absolutely not. The above examples are merely exceptions to the rule. In fact, the chemists associated with name reactions are typically the original dis- verers, contribute greatly to its general use, and/or are the first to popularize the transformation. Regardless of the controversial history underlying certain named reactions, it is the students of organic chemistry who benefit the most from the - taloging of reactions by name. Indeed, it is with education in mind that Dr. Jack Li has masterfully brought the chemical community the latest edition of Name Reactions. It is clear why this beautiful treatise has rapidly become a bestseller within the chemical community.

Alder ene reaction

Aldol condensation
Algar-Flynn-Oyamada Reaction
Allan-Robinson reaction
Appel reaction
Arndt-Eistert homologation
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement
Bamberger rearrangement
Bamford-Stevens reaction
Barbier coupling reaction
Bargellini reaction
Bartoli indole synthesis
Barton radical decarboxylation
Barton-McCombie deoxygenation
Barton nitrite photolysis
Barton-Zard reaction
Batcho-Leimgruber indole synthesis
Baylis-Hillman reaction
Beckmann rearrangement
Beirut reaction
Benzilic acid rearrangement
Benzoin condensation
Bergman cyclization
Biginelli pyrimidone synthesis
Birch reduction
Bischler-Möhlau indole synthesis
Bischler-Napieralski reaction
Blaise reaction
Blanc chloromethylation
Blum aziridine synthesis
Boekelheide reaction
Boger pyridine synthesis
Borch reductive amination
Borsche-Drechsel cyclization
Boulton-Katritzky rearrangement
Bouveault aldehyde synthesis
Bouveault-Blanc reduction
Boyland-Sims oxidation
Bradsher reaction
Brook rearrangement
Brown hydroboration
Bucherer carbazole synthesis
Bucherer reaction
Bucherer-Bergs reaction
Büchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck reaction
Büchner method of ring expansion
Buchwald-Hartwig C-N and C-O bond formation reactions
Burgess dehydrating reagent
Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling
Camps quinolinol synthesis
Cannizzaro disproportionation
Carroll rearrangement
Castro-Stephens coupling
Chan alkyne reduction
Chan-Lam coupling reaction
Chapman rearrangement
Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
Chugaev elimination
Ciamician-Dennsted rearrangement
Claisen condensation
Claisen isoxazole synthesis
Claisen rearrangements
Clemmensen reduction
Combes quinoline synthesis.-Conrad-Limpach reaction
Cope elimination reaction
Cope rearrangement
Corey-Bakshi-Shibata (CBS) reduction
Corey-Chaykovsky reaction
Corey-Fuchs reaction
Corey-Kim oxidation
Corey-Nicolaou macrolactonization
Corey-Seebach reaction
Corey-Winter olefin synthesis
Criegee glycol cleavage
Criegee mechanism of ozonolysis
Curtius rearrangement
Dakin oxidation
Dakin-West reaction
Danheiser annulation
Darzens glycidic ester condensation
Davis chiral oxaziridine reagents
Delépine amine synthesis
de Mayo reaction
Demjanov rearrangement
Dess-Martin periodinane oxidation
Dieckmann condensation
Diels-Alder reaction
Dienone-phenol rearrangement
Di-?-methane rearrangement
Doebner quinoline synthesis
Dötz reaction
Dowd-Beckwith ring expansion
Erlenmeyer-Plöchl azlactone synthesis
Eschenmoser-Tanabe fragmentation
Eschweiler-Clarke reductive alkylation of amines
Evans aldol reaction
Favorskii rearrangement and quasi-Favorskii rearrangement
Feist-Bénary furan synthesis
Ferrier carbocyclization
Ferrier glycal allylic rearrangement
Fiesselmann thiophene synthesis
Fischer indole synthesis
Fischer oxazole synthesis
Fleming-Kumada oxidation
Friedel-Crafts reaction
Friedländer quinoline synthesis
Fries rearrangement
Fukuyama amine synthesis
Fukuyama reduction
Gabriel synthesis
Gabriel-Colman rearrangement
Gassman indole synthesis
Gattermann-Koch reaction
Gewald aminothiophene synthesis
Glaser coupling
Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
Gould-Jacobs reaction
Grignard reaction
Grob fragmentation
Guareschi-Thorpe condensation
Hajos-Wiechert reaction
Haller-Bauer reaction
Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis
Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis
Heck reaction
Hegedus indole synthesis.-Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction
Henry nitroaldol reaction
Hinsberg synthesis of thiophene derivatives
Hiyama cross-coupling reaction
Hofmann rearrangement
Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag reaction
Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Houben-Hoesch reaction
Hunsdiecker-Borodin reaction
Hurd-Mori 1,2,3-thiadiazole synthesis
Jacobsen-Katsuki epoxidation
Japp-Klingemann hydrazone synthesis
Jones oxidation
Julia-Kocienski olefination
Julia-Lythgoe olefination
Kahne-Crich glycosidation
Keck macrolactonization
Knoevenagel condensation
Knorr pyrazole synthesis
Koch-Haaf carbonylation
Koenig-Knorr glycosidation
Kolbe-Schmitt reaction
Kostanecki reaction
Kröhnke pyridine synthesis
Kumada cross-coupling reaction
Lawesson's reagent
Leuckart-Wallach reaction
Lossen rearrangement
McFadyen-Stevens reduction
McMurry coupling
MacMillan catalyst
Mannich reaction
Marshall boronate fragmentation
Martin's sulfurane dehydrating reagent
Masamune-Roush conditions
Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
Meisenheimer complex
[1,2]-Meisenheimer rearrangement
[2,3]-Meisenheimer rearrangement
Meth-Cohn quinoline synthesis
Meyers oxazoline method
Meyer-Schuster rearrangement
Michael addition
Michaelis-Arbuzov phosphonate synthesis
Midland reduction
Mislow-Evans rearrangement
Mitsunobu reaction
Miyaura borylation
Moffatt oxidation
Montgomery coupling
Morgan-Walls reaction
Mori-Ban indole synthesis
Mukaiyama aldol reaction
Mukaiyama Michael addition
Mukaiyama reagent
Myers-Saito cyclization
Nazarov cyclization
Neber rearrangement
Nef reaction
Negishi cross-coupling reaction
Nenitzescu indole synthesis
Nicholas reaction
Nicolaou dehydrogenation
Nicolaou hydroxy-dithioketal cyclization.-Nicolaou hydroxy-ketone reductive cyclic ether formation
Nicolaou oxyselenation
Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation
Nozaki-Hiyama-Kishi reaction
Oppenauer oxidation
Overman rearrangement
Paal thiophene synthesis
Paal-Knorr furan synthesis
Parham cyclization
Passerini reaction
Paternó-Büchi reaction
Pauson-Khand cyclopentenone synthesis
Payne rearrangement
Pechmann coumarin synthesis
Perkin reaction
Petasis reaction
Peterson olefination
Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis
Pictet-Spengler tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis
Pinacol rearrangement
Pinner reaction
Polonovski reaction
Polonovski-Potier reaction
Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction
Prévost trans-dihydroxylation
Prins reaction
Pschorr cyclization
Pummerer rearrangement
Ramberg-Bäcklund reaction
Reformatsky reaction
Regitz diazo synthesis
Reimer-Tiemann reaction
Reissert aldehyde synthesis
Reissert indole synthesis
Ring-closing metathesis (RCM)
Ritter reaction
Robinson annulation
Robinson-Gabriel synthesis
Robinson-Schöpf reaction
Rosenmund reduction
Rubottom oxidation
Rupe rearrangement
Saegusa oxidation
Sakurai allylation reaction
Sandmeyer reaction
Schiemann reaction
Schmidt reaction
Schmidt's trichloroacetimidate glycosidation reaction
Shapiro reaction
Sharpless asymmetric amino hydroxylation
Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation
Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
Sharpless olefin synthesis
Simmons-Smith reaction
Skraup quinoline synthesis
Smiles rearrangement
Sommelet reaction
Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement
Sonogashira reaction
Staudinger ketene cycloaddition
Staudinger reduction
Sternbach benzodiazepine synthesis
Stetter reaction
Still-Gennari phosphonate reaction
Stille coupling
Stille-Kellyreaction
Stobbe condensation
Stork enamine reaction
Strecker amino acid synthesis
Suzuki coupling
Swern oxidation
Takai iodoalkene synthesis
Tebbe olefination
TEMPO-mediated oxidation
Thorpe-Ziegler reaction
Tsuji-Trost reaction
Ugi reaction
Ullmann reaction
van Leusen oxazole synthesis
Vilsmeier-Haack reaction
Vilsmeier mechanism for acid chloride formation
Vinylcyclopropane-cyclopentene rearrangement
von Braun reaction
Wacker oxidation
Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
Weiss-Cook reaction
Wharton oxygen transposition reaction
Willgerodt-Kindler reaction
Wittig reaction
[1,2]-Wittig rearrangement
[2,3]-Wittig rearrangement
Wohl-Ziegler reaction
Wolff rearrangement
Wolff-Kishner reduction
Yamaguchi esterification
Zincke reaction.