Commonly employed reactions

Esterification
Cyclocondensation
Nitration
Nitrosation
Sandmeyer
Ullmann (etherifications / couplings)
Sulphonation
 Aldolisation
Chlorosulphonation
Acylation (Friedel - Craft / Others)
Halogenations (Br / Cl / F / I introduction)

 

 

 

 

 

 



 Oxidation (e.g. Oppenauer / Peroxide / Periodate / Permanganase)
Reduction (borohydrides / hydrazine / metal hydride)
Alkylation (e.g. Grignard / Eschweiler Clarke…)