Carbon-carbon bond making reactions

  1. The Corey-House Reaction - makes alkanes

  2. The Diels-Alder Reaction

  3. Reaction of acetylide ions with haloalkanes

    4. RX + -CºC- ® -CºC-R

  4. Friedel-Crafts alkylation

    5. ArH + RX/AlCl3 ® ArR

  5. Friedel-Crafts acylation

    6. ArH + RCOCl/AlCl3 ® ArCOR

  6. Reaction of Grignard reagents with aldehydes, carbon dioxide, esters, ethylene oxide and ketones

    1. with methanal (formaldehyde)

    2. with other aldehydes

    3. with ketones

    4. with ethylene oxide

    5. with esters

    6. with carbon dioxide

  7. Reaction of cyanide with haloalkanes

    8. RX + CN- ® RCN

  8. Reaction of acid chlorides with lithium cuprates

  9. Reaction of aldehydes and ketones with cyanide

  10. The Wittig reaction

  11. The Aldol condensation

  12. Alkylation

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