Fischer Esterification
Fischer Esterification is the mechanism of refluxing a carboxylic acid and an alcohol in the presence of an acid catalyst to produce an ester. It is also known as Fischer-Speier …
Aldehydes Ketones Carboxylic Acids
Carboxylic Acid
Carboxylic acid is basically an organic acid containing a carboxyl functional group (C(=O)OH) attached to an R-group. The general formula is R-COOH or R-CO2H. R refers to the alkyl, alkenyl, …
Hell-Volhard Zelinsky Reaction
Hell-Volhard Zelinsky Reaction is an organic reaction by which the carboxylic acids are halogenated at the α-carbon atom. This reaction is named after the 3 German-chemists namely: Carl Magnus Von …
Stephen Reaction
Stephen Reaction also known as Stephen Aldehyde Synthesis or Stephen Reduction is named after its inventor Henry Stephen. This organic redox reaction involves the preparation of aldehydes(R-CHO) from nitriles(R-CN) using …
Rosenmund Reduction
The Rosenmund Reduction reaction is a hydrogenation process in which an acyl chloride is selectively reduced to an aldehyde. The reaction was named after Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund who discovered it …
Haloform Reaction
The Haloform Reaction is an organic chemical reaction where a haloform (CHX3, where X is a halogen) is produced by the exhaustive halogenation of a methyl ketone (RCOCH3, where R …
Etard Reaction
Etard Reaction is the partial oxidation of an aromatic ring with an attached methyl group. For example, converting Toluene (C7H8– A hexagon with a methyl group-CH3) into aldehydes like Benzaldehyde (C7H6O …