Characteristics Kharasch addition is the addition of polyhalogenated compounds to alkenes. This reaction was first reported in the 1940s by Kharasch[a] and today is known as Kharasch addition or ...
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C-H Oxidation with NHPI Catalyst
Characteristics N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) and related compounds have been revealed to be efficient organocatalysts for free-radical processes and have found ample application in promoting the ...
Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement
Characteristics Boyer-Schmidt-Aube Rearrangement is the Lewis acid-mediated reactions of simple ketones with alkyl azides. It has been shown that the Schmidt reaction of alkyl azides, a reaction ...
Barluenga’s Reagent
Characteristics Bis(pyridine)iodonium tetrafluoroborate (IPy2BF4; CAS 15656-28-7) is an iodinating and oxidizing reagent[b], which was developed by José Barluenga.[a] Examples as an iodinating ...
Bingel Reaction
Characteristics The Bingel reaction in fullerene chemistry is a fullerene cyclopropanation reaction to a methanofullerene first discovered by C. Bingel in 1993[a] with the bromo derivative of ...
Dyotropic rearrangement
Characteristics In 1972, M. T. Reetz originally defined dyotropic (from the greek dyo , meaning two) rearrangements as a new class of pericyclic valence isomerizations in which two σ ...
Cheletropic Reaction
Characteristics Cheletropic reactions are types of pericyclic reaction. A type of addition reaction in which a conjugated molecule forms two single bonds from terminal atoms of the conjugated system ...
Corey-Gilman-Ganem Oxidation
Characteristics The Corey-Gilman-Ganem oxidation transforms benzylic or α,β-unsaturated aldehydes into the corresponding methyl esters. The aldehydes can be selectively oxidized to esters in presence ...
Barton-Kellogg Reaction
Characteristics The Barton-Kellogg reaction is a coupling reaction between a ketone and a thioketone through a diazo intermediate forming an alkene. The McMurry Reaction is similar to the ...
Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling
Characteristics A cross-coupling reaction between organoboron and organoboron and organohalide compounds via palladium catalysis, which was discovered by Akira Suzuki and Norio Miyaura (Hokkaido ...