Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry

Surrey, Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry, 1954 (Academic Press). 

Among the more recent name reactions in organic chemistry, the McMurry reaction is of particular importance as a synthetic method. It permits the... 

It is both a pleasure and a privilege to have been invited to write the Foreword to a book of such importance as Dr. Comyns dictionary of named processes in the chemical industry. For many years, chemists have had access to books with titles like Named Reactions in Organic Chemistry. Here the busy student or researcher can discover immediately the nature of the Wurtz reaction, the Cannizzaro reaction, and such curiosities as the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction. Until the first edition of the present book appeared in 1993, no such literary assistance was available to the multitudes who labored in the chemical industry. Six years later, a second edition took into account the many novelties that had appeared in that short period. Now a third edition is expanded still further, particularly by inclusion of many biological processes that industry now uses. 

Two other sites related to chemical synthesis inclnde http //orgchem.chem.nconn.edn/namereact/named.html which inclndes details of abont 100 named reactions and the reaction index at http //www.pmf.nkim.edu.mk/PMF/ Chemistry/reactions/rindex.htm, which contains a very extensive list of named reactions in organic chemistry. 

A. R. Surrey, Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1961. 

Several outstanding books on name reactions in organic chemistry are available. These typically briefly cover the classic indole name reactions with examples, references, and, in some cases, experimental procedures. 

Name reactions are also defined in two other publications. Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry by A. R. Surrey (Academic Press, 1961) describes about 125 reactions known by the name of their discoverers listed in alphabetical order and gives for each a brief biography, a description of the reaction and its mechanism together with an indication of its usefulness and limitations, and a literature reference. Name Index of Organic Reactions by J. E. Gowan and T. S. Wheeler (Interscience, 1960) gives concise explanations with references of 739 named reactions. Many... 

In the mid-2000s, Griengl and coworkers reasoned that a small molecule with a similar pK as HCN, for example, nitromethane, could act as nucleophile for addition to carbonyl compounds (nitroaldol or Henry reaction Scheme 25.3) [111]. The Henry reaction is a classical name reaction in organic chemistry for the formation of C—C bonds. The resulting p-nitro alcohols can be transformed to nitroalkenes, 2-nitroketones, a-hydroxycarboxylic acids, and 1,2-amino alcohols. Although several other enzymes and proteins such as hydrolases and lipases [112], transglutaminase... 

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