All Named reactions articles

Opinion

Negishi’s reagent

2020-07-03T08:30:00Z

Looking past palladium to an elegant view of zirconium

Opinion

Nazarov cyclisation

2020-05-14T08:33:00Z

We are all shaped by the opportunities afforded us, by the social structures and politics of our day

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Friedel–Crafts reaction

2020-02-20T15:00:00Z

The coupling reactions developed by two lifelong friends

Opinion

Hammett equation

2020-01-14T09:27:00Z

Introducing the power to predict how structure affects reactivity

Opinion

Paternò–Büchi reaction

2019-11-12T14:13:00Z

A 45-year puzzle that started on a sunny Italian rooftop

Opinion

Stille cross-coupling

2019-09-30T08:51:00Z

Palladium and tin combined to lay the foundations for a revolution in C–C bond-forming reactions 

Opinion

Thorpe–Ingold effect

2019-07-26T11:00:00Z

A flawed assertion that nevertheless proved useful in synthesis

Opinion

Diels–Alder reaction

2019-04-29T14:20:00Z

An unexpected addition that revealed a new class of reactions

Opinion

Norrish photolytic cleavage

2019-03-12T09:25:00Z

 

Opinion

Reformatskii reaction

2019-01-21T14:25:00Z

The survivor of a once-great empire of zinc chemistry

Opinion

Curtius rearrangement

2018-11-26T16:30:00Z

An explosive tale of serendipitous discovery

Opinion

Michael Addition

2018-09-04T09:30:00Z

The quarrel to claim one of organic chemistry’s most famous reactions