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 Lawesson thiacarbonylation

 

 Lebedev methoxymethylation: Methoxymethyl methyl sulfate works as an electrophile for the methoxymethylation of alkene.

 

 Liebig benzylic rearrangement

 

 Leimgruber-Batcho indole synthesis

 Leuckart (Carl Louis Rudolf Alexander Leuckart 1854 - 1889) thiophenol synthesis

 

 Leuckart - Wallach reductive amination

Lieben haloform reaction is that the methyl ketone has been oxidized by hypochloride or hypobromide ( Br2 or Cl2 in H2O) to give a carboxylic acid.

 Lossen (Wilhelm Lossen 1838 - 1906) rearrangement refers to the decomposition of hydroxamic acids or their derivatives to yield isocyanates. It is similar to Hofmann rearrangement, in which amide was oxidized by hypohalides or NBS and then re arranged to isocyanate. The isocyanates were decomposed under water to afford amine.

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 Madelung (Louis Camille Maillard 1878 -1936) indole synthesis

 

Mannich (Carl Mannich 1877 - 1947) reaction is the condensation between an iminium ion and an enolizable carbonyl.

 McFadyen (John S. McFadyen) - Stevens (Thomas Stevens 1900 - ?) ester reduction

McMurry (John Edward Mcmurry 1942 - ) Coupling is the reductive coupling of carbonyl compound with titanium. Carbonyl compounds with bulky substituents give excellent yields of sterically hindered alkenes, predominantly as the trans isomers.

Meerwein (Hans Lebrecht Meerwein 1879 -1965) arylation

Meerwein (Hans Lebrecht Meerwein 1879 -1965) - Ponndorf - Verley reduction proceeds via a cyclic transition state involoving coordination of both the alcohol and ketone oxygens to the alumium. Hydride donation usually takes place at the less hindered face of the carbonyl group. Opposite to  Oppenauer Oxidation.

Meisenheimer (Jakob Meisenheimer 1876 - 1934) rearrangement is the rearrangement of the N-oxide of a tertiary amine with allyl group to yield a allyl hydroxylamine via a [2,3] sigmatropic shift.

 Meisenheimer complex

 

 Meyer-Schuster rearrangement

 Michaelis-Arbuzov phosphonate synthesis

 Midland reduction is an asymmetric reduction of ketones with R, or S alpine borane (9-BBN).

Miller-Loudon-Snyder Aryl cyanide synthesis

 

 Mislow-Evens Rearrangement is the reversible 2,3-sigmatropic rearrangement of allylic sulfoxides to allyl sulfenates.

 Mitsunobu (Oyo Mitsunobo 1934 - ) reaction

 Moffatt oxidation

 Morgan-Walls reaction

 Mukaiyama (Teruaki Mukaiyama 1927 - ) esterification

 Mukaiyama (Teruaki Mukaiyama 1927 - ) aldol condensation

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 Nazarov (Ivan Nikolaevich Nazarov 1906 - 1957) cyclization

 

Neber (Peter W. Neber 1883 -1960) rearrangement is a rearrangement of N,N-dimethylhydraone or tosylate oxime to alpha amino ketone.

 Neber-Bosset oxindole synthesis

 Nef (John Ulrich Nef 1862 - 1915) reaction

 

 Nenitzescu 5-hydroxyindole synthesis

 Nickl benzofuran synthesis

 

 Niementowski quinazolone synthesis

 

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 O'Donnell amino acid synthesis

 Orton (Kennedy Joseph Previte Orton 1872 - 1930) rearrangement is a rearrangement of N-haloaniline derivative to o- or p-halo aniline derivative. The halo aniline was made via oxidation of aniline derivative with NCS, NBS, or NaOCl.

Overman Pyrrolidine synthesis

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 Parham cyclization reaction

 

 Passerini reaction is a three component condensation.

 

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Paterno (Emanuele Paterno 1847 - 1935) - Buchi (George hermann Buchi) cycloaddition.

Payne rearrangement is the migration of epoxide in a, b-epoxy alcohols. This reaction happened under basic condition.

 

Pechmann (Hans von Pechmann 1850 - 1902) coumarin synthesis is the synthesis coumarin from phenol and beta-keto ester.

 

Pechmann (Hans von Pechmann 1850 - 1902) pyrazole synthesis is a typical 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction. von pechman diazo-olefin cycloaddition

 

 Perkin (William Henry Perkin 1838 - 1907) coumarin rearrangement

 

 Peterson (Donald J. Peterson 1935 - ) Olefination has been applied to the synthesis of hindered alkenes that are difficult to make by Wittig reaction. Beta-hydroxysilane, the intermediate of this reaction, could undergo elimination steroselectively by using base or acid to catalyze the reaction. Go figure out the mechanism, it is a cis-elimination under basic condition, and a trans-elimination under acidic condition.

 

Pfitzinger quinoline synthesis

 

Pictet-Spengler reaction

 

Pinacol rearrangement is a dehydration reaction of glycols under acidic condition. The carbocation formed under acidic condition undergos a rearrangement to give a ketone.

 

Fittig, R. Ann. Chem. 1860, 114, 54

 Pinner imino ether synthesis

 

Polonovski (Max Polonovski 1861 - 1939) rearrangement is the reaction of a tertiary amine N-oxide and acetic anhydride or acetyl chloride. This reaction provides ready access to iminium ions, enamines, and aldehyde.

Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction, its' modification is called Schilittle-Muller reaction

Povarov Reaction

 

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 Prilezhaev (Nikolai Aleksandrovich Prilezhaev 1872 - 1944) epoxide synthesis is the formation of epoxides from olefins. The transition state is called "butterfly state".

 

Pummerer (Rudolf Pummerer 1882 - 1973) rearrangement is a redox reaction in which the sulfoxide is reduced to sulfide and the alpha carbon is oxidized. It is sulfur version of Polonovski reaction.

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Ramberg (Ludwig Ramberg 1874 - 1940) - Bäcklund (Birger Bäcklund 1908 - 1997) Reaction is that the alpha-halosulfones undergo a rearrangement. The thiirane dioxide decomposes with elimination of sulfur dioxide, and the formation of a double bond.

 

 Rapp-Stoermer benzofuran synthesis

 

Reformatsky (Sergei Nikolaeviè Reformatski 1860-1934) reaction is a alpha halo ester activated by zinc to react with ketone or aldyhyde give a beta hydroxy ester. The trick part of this reaction is that zinc has to be activated by TMSCl to give a good yield

 

 Regitz (Manfred Regitz 1935 - ) diazo synthesis

 

 Reimer (Karl Ludwig Reimer 1845 - 1883) - Tiemann phenol formylation

 

Reissert reaction is the activated quinoline or isoquinoline via acid chloride undergoes a nuleophilic addition with -CN group. The pyridine could be activated by N-oxide

 

 Remfry-Hull pyrimidine synthesis

 

 Riley Selenium Oxidation is mostly used in allylic hydroxylation. The mechanism is a interesting one.

 

Ritter (John Joseph Ritter 1895 - ?) reaction is that a carbon cation reacts with nitrile group to give an amide.

 

Robinson (Sir Robert Robinson 1886 - 1975 Nobel Prize Chemistry 1947) annulation is a combination of a Michael addition and an Aldol condensation. Asymmetric Robinson annulation catalyzed by (s)-(-)-proline is called Hajos-Wiechert reaction.

 

Robinson-Schopf  tropinone synthesis is probably the earliest total synthesis.

Robinson-Gabriel oxazole synthesis is the synthesis of oxazole from the amide of alpha-amino ketone ( from Dakin-West reaction) treated with strong acid.

 

 Rosini-Bartoli nitro-reduction

 

 Rubottom oxidation

 

 Ruppert perfluoroalkylation

 

 von Richter aromatic carboxylation

 

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