Chapter 22: Summary of Major Reaction Mechanisms
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Difficulty Level ★: Sophomore college level → Able to solve problems by rote memorization
Difficulty Level ★★: Senior college level → Capable of making deductions after some trials and errors
Difficulty Level ★★★: Exam candidate level for professional exams → Frequently tested complex reactions
Difficulty Level ★★★★: Highly difficult exam questions → Rarely tested complex reactions
1. Acetoacetic ester synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★)
2. Acyloin condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
3. Aldol addition (Difficulty Level: ★★)
4. Aldol condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
5. Arbuzov reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
6. Arndt-Eistert synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★★)
7. Aza-Cope rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★)
8. azo coupling (Difficulty Level: ★)
9. Baeyer-Villiger oxidation (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
10. Baylis-Hillman reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
11. Beckmann rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
12. benzilic acid rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
13. benzoin condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
14. Birch reduction (Difficulty Level: ★)
15. Bischler-Napieralski reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
16. boronic acid Mannich reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
17. brown hydroboration (Difficulty Level: ★★)
18. Cannizzaro reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
19. Claisen condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
20. Claisen rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★)
21. Claisen-Schmidt reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
22. Clemmensen reduction (Difficulty Level: ★)
23. Cope elimination (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
24. Cope rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★)
25. Corey-Posner-Whitesides-House Reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
26. Corey-Seebach reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
27. Cumene process (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
28. Curtius rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
29. Darzens condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
30. Dess-Martin oxidation (Difficulty Level: ★)
31. Diazotisation (Difficulty Level: ★)
32. Dieckmann condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
33. Diels-Alder reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
34. 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition (Difficulty Level: ★)
35. Eschweiler-Clarke reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
36. Ester pyrolysis (Difficulty Level: ★)
37. Favorskii rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
38. Fischer esterification (Difficulty Level: ★)
39. Friedel-Crafts acylation (Difficulty Level: ★)
40. Friedel-Crafts alkylation (Difficulty Level: ★)
41. Fries rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
42. Gabriel synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★★)
43. Gattermann-Koch reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
44. Grob fragmentation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
45. Grubbs reaction (Olefin metathesis) (Difficulty Level: ★★)
46. Haloform reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
47. Heck reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
48. Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky(HVZ) reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
49. Hofmann elimination (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
50. Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
51. Hundsdiecker reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
52. Ireland-Claisen rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
53. Johnson-Claisen rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
54. Johnson-Corey-Chaykovsky reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
55. Jones oxidation (Difficulty Level: ★)
56. Knoevenagel condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
57. Kochi reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
58. Kolbe nitrile synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★)
59. Kolbe-Schmitt reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
60. Malonic ester synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★★)
61. Mannich reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
62. McMurry reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
63. Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
64. Michael addition (Difficulty Level: ★★)
65. Mukaiyama aldol reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
66. Negishi coupling (Difficulty Level: ★)
67. oxy-Cope rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★)
68. oxymercuration-demercuration reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
69. ozonolysis (Difficulty Level: ★)
70. para-Claisen rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★)
71. Payne epoxidation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
72. Perkin’s condensation (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
73. Pictet-Spengler reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
74. Pinacol coupling reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
75. Pinacol rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★)
76.Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
77. Reductive amination reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
78. Reimer-Tiemann reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
79. Reformatsky reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
80. Ring expansion reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
81. Ring contraction reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
82. Ring formation reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
83. Ring opening reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
84. Ritter reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
85. Robinson annulation (Difficulty Level: ★★)
86. Rosenmund reduction (Difficulty Level: ★)
87. Sandmeyer reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
88. Schmidt reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
89. semi-pinacol rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★)
90. Shapiro reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★★)
91. Simmons-Smith reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
92. Stetter reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
93. Strecker synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★)
94. Stork-Enamine reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
95. Suzuki coupling (Difficulty Level: ★)
96. Swern oxidation (Difficulty Level: ★)
97. Tiffeneau-Demjanov rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
98. tautomerization (Difficulty Level: ★)
99. Wilsmeier reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
100. Williamson ether synthesis (Difficulty Level: ★)
101. Wittig reaction (Difficulty Level: ★)
102. Wolff-Kishner reduction (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
103. Wolff rearrangement (Difficulty Level: ★★★)
104. Wurtz reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
105. Wurtz-Fittig reaction (Difficulty Level: ★★)
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