Outline of organic chemistry
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:
Organic chemistry is the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens as well as phosphorus, silicon, and sulfur.
General topics
- History of organic chemistry
- IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry
- Organic reaction
- Organic compound
- Organic synthesis
- * Retrosynthetic analysis
Current trends
Current trends in organic chemistry include :- Biocatalysis
- Catalysis
- Chemosensors
- Chiral synthesis
- Flow chemistry
- Green chemistry
- Mechanochemistry
- Photoredox catalysis
Concepts
- Acids and bases
- *Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
- *Acid dissociation constants
- *Lewis acids and bases
- Chemoselectivity
- Molecular structure
- * Aromaticity
- * Chemical bonding
- ** Covalent bonding
- ** Lewis model
- ** Molecule shapes
- ** Bond angles
- ** Resonance structures
- * Conjugated systems
- *Functional groups
- * Stereochemistry
- ** Conformational isomerism
- ** Diastereomer
- ** Stereoisomerism
- ** Chirality
- ** Optical activity
- ** Enantiomers
- Regioselectivity
- Stereoselectivity
- Spectroscopy
- * Infrared spectroscopy
- * Mass spectrometry
- * NMR spectroscopy
- *Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy
- Organometallic chemistry
Chemical species
- Acetals
- * Hemiacetals
- * Thioacetals
- * Ketals
- Alcohols and diols
- Haloalkanes
- Thiols
- Alkanes and cycloalkanes
- Alkenes
- Alkynes
- Amines
- Amino acids, peptides, proteins
- Aromatics
- * Acetophenones
- * Anilines
- * Anisoles
- * Benzene
- * Benzenesulfonic acids
- *Benzophenones
- * Nitrobenzenes
- * Phenols
- Aromatic hydrocarbons
- *Toluene
- *Xylenes
- Aryl halides
- Carbohydrates
- * Sugar
- Carbonyl compounds
- *Acid anhydride
- * Acyl halides
- ** Acyl chlorides
- * Aldehydes
- * Amides
- ** Lactams
- * Carboxylic acids
- *Dicarbonyl
- *Enones
- *Esters
- ** Lactones
- *Imides
- *Ketones
- Enols
- * Enolate anions
- * Enamines
- Ethers
- * Epoxides
- * Sulfides
- Imines
- * Schiff bases
- Ketenes
- Lipids
- Nitriles
- Nucleic acids
- Organometallic compounds
- Oximes
Reactions
- Addition reaction
- *Aldol addition
- *Electrophilic addition
- *Michael addition
- *Mukaiyama aldol addition
- *Nucleophilic addition
- Cyclization
- *Bergman cyclization
- *Nazarov cyclization reaction
- Elimination reaction
- *Beta elimination
- *Cope elimination
- *E1cB elimination reaction
- *Hofmann elimination
- Organic redox reaction
- *Cannizzaro reaction
- *Oxidation
- **Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
- **Corey-Kim oxidation
- **Dess-Martin oxidation
- **Fleming-Tamao oxidation
- **Jones oxidation
- **Nucleophilic epoxidation
- **Oppenauer oxidation
- **Prilezhaev reaction
- **Rubottom oxidation
- **Schmidt reaction
- **Swern oxidation
- **Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
- *Reduction
- **Birch reduction
- **Bouveault-Blanc reduction
- **CBS reduction
- **Clemmensen reduction
- **Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
- **Corey–Itsuno reduction
- **Fukuyama reduction
- **Luche reduction
- **Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley reduction
- **Rosenmund reduction
- **Staudinger reduction
- **Wolff-Kishner reduction
- Pericyclic reaction
- *Cheletropic reaction
- *Cycloaddition
- **1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition
- ***Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
- **Diels–Alder reaction
- **Nitrone-olefin (3+2) cycloaddition
- **Staudinger ketene-imine cycloaddition
- *Dyotropic reaction
- *Electrocyclic reaction
- *Group transfer reaction
- *Sigmatropic reaction
- Polymerization
- *Cationic polymerization
- *Anionic polymerization
- *Radical polymerization
- *Ring-opening polymerization
- Rearrangement reaction
- *Baker–Venkataraman rearrangement
- *Beckmann rearrangement
- *Benzilic acid rearrangement
- *Brook rearrangement
- *Claisen rearrangement
- *Cope rearrangement
- *Curtius rearrangement
- *Fries rearrangement
- *Ireland–Claisen rearrangement
- *Newman–Kwart rearrangement
- *Overman rearrangement
- *Oxy-Cope rearrangement
- *Pinacol rearrangement
- *1,2-Wittig rearrangement
- *2,3-Wittig rearrangement
- Substitution reaction
- *Electrophilic aromatic substitution
- *Nucleophilic aromatic substitution
- *Electrophilic substitution
- *Nucleophilic substitution
- **SN1 reaction
- **SN2 reaction
- *Vicarious nucleophilic substitution