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All Types of chemical reactions in organic and inorganic chemistry by examples

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Are they 3 or 4 or 6 or even 10 Types of chemical reactions?
How many types of chemical reaction are they?
I will dive with you in the amazing chemistry science in this Very long guide to know what exactly the chemistry types of reactions and How many types of chemical reactions are they?
First go here to know what is the chemical reaction?

What are the types of chemical reactions? 
Chemical reactions differentiate into many types according to:
1) The nature and behave of reactant, so that the compounds are select different route in reaction that the inorganic compounds.
2) The activity of the reagent
3) Applied temperature or pressure on the reaction system may be alter the direction and the type of the reaction

For example: when oxygen and oxygen are in the air they found in a mixture called the air and no possible reaction could be occur, but if we combine quantity of oxygen and hydrogen into a reactor and a flame or high energy source applied they interact and form the water (water is a combination of two atoms of hydrogen linked with one atom of oxygen) 

Simple chemical Reaction types chart
1. Four basic types 
Synthesis
Decomposition
Single replacement
Double replacement

2. Many reaction types and mechanisms from the basic four types:
Actualy they are mechanisms, pathways and special cases inside four basic types
Oxidation and reduction: abbreviated Redox reaction, reactions can be understood in terms of transfer of electrons from one involved species (reducing agent) to another (oxidizing agent).
Complexation: several ligands react with a metal atom to form a coordination complex.
Acid-base reactions: reactions involve transfer of protons from one molecule (acid) to another (base). Here, acids act as proton donors and bases as acceptors.
Precipitation: is the formation of a solid in a solution or inside another solid during a chemical reaction.
Solid-state reactions: Reactions can take place between two solids
Photo-chemical reactions: In photochemical reactions, atoms and molecules absorb energy (photons) of the illumination light and convert into an excited state. They can then release this energy by breaking chemical bonds, thereby producing radicals. Photochemical reactions include hydrogen–oxygen reactions, radical polymerization, chain reactions and rearrangement reactions

3. Reactions in organic chemistry
they are three basic types, chemists love to label Reactions in organic chemistry as (SN1, SN2, E1, E2) and they are: 
Substitution (SN1, SN2): a functional group in a particular chemical compound is replaced by another group. These reactions can be distinguished by the type of substituting species into a nucleophilic, electrophilic or radical substitution.
Addition and elimination (E1, E2): reactions which change the number of substitutents on the carbon atom, and form or cleave multiple bonds.
Other organic reaction mechanisms that named after thier discoverer

4. Biochemical reactions types are depends on ogranic and inorganic reaction types

Types of chemical reactions in Inorganic chemistry
Inorganic chemical reactions are common types in chemistry, and there are only four basic types of reactions in chemistry, but some websites I found they categorize many types as they are the basic types, no; the basic types is four and they are synthesis, decomposition, single replacement and double replacement, And many types are depend on those four types as: Oxidation and reduction, Complexation, Acid-base reactions

1. Synthesis Reaction (Combination Reaction) 
In a synthesis reaction, two or more substances combine to form a new compound.
New compound will be ionic, i.e. formed by ionic bonding.
"A + B---- AB"
Where we assumed that A and B is reactant substances, AB is the new produced substance.

Examples of combination or synthesis reactions: Formation of Aluminum Bromide 
Bromine (Br2) is liquid reactant + Aluminum (Al) is solid surface reactant---- they produce Aluminum Bromide (AlBr3)
Aluminum Bromide has a color observed on the watch glass of reactor 

What happen when liquid bromine poured on the surface of solid aluminum? 
Simple ionic bonding where Aluminum oxidized (lose electron) and become (Al3+) and Bromine reduced by accepting electron of aluminum and become bromide (Br-), after breaking bonds and ions formed, next rearrange process will occur and new bonds formed between one aluminum cation and three ions of bromide to form a new substance is ionic compound called Aluminum Bromide and written as (AlBr3).
The equation of Formation of Aluminum Bromide reaction will be written as: "2Al + 3Br2 ---- 2Al+ + 6Br- --- 2AlBr3 + energy"
Energy released with products due to the reaction occurred is exothermic reaction.

Formation of Sodium Chloride: 
What will happen when sodium reacts with chlorine? If we capture molten sodium into a reactor filled of chlorine gas ionic bonding will occur, which sodium oxidized to sodium cations and chlorine reduced to chloride anions, next process occur by when one sodium cation combine with one chloride anion and form ionic compound called sodium chloride which know as table salt, which is the white solid.
The equation of Formation of Sodium Chloride reaction written as: 
"Na + Cl ---- Na+ + Cl- ---- NaCl" 

Formation of Zinc Oxide from zinc and oxygen The equation is: "Zn + O2 ---- Zn+ + 2O- ---- ZnO"  
Reaction explanation: zinc loss two electrons and oxidized to Zinc cations, on the other hand oxygen gas reduced to oxygen anions when it gain electrons from Zinc, next formation step involved the combination of Zinc ion and oxygen ion to form ionic compound is Zinc Oxide which precipitated in the reactor

Synthesis reaction used to form  iron (II) sulfide
It is a combination of iron and sulfur to form iron (II) sulfide: 
equation is: "8Fe + S8 ---> 8 FeS"  

2. Single-Replacement Reaction 
Sometimes called displacement reaction,
Simple equation: " AB + C ---- AC + B "
What happens in this simple reaction?
Where AB is a molecular compound in the reactants, and C is single molecule/atom where B replaced by C in AB compound in a transitional state and finally formed the new molecular compound AC and a single replaced atom/molecule B

Examples of single replacement reactions: 
Thermite Reaction that used in welding iron Equation is:  "Fe2O3 + Al ---- Al2O3"  
Reaction explanation: Iron (III) Oxide is reduced when gaining electrons from Oxidized Aluminum and two different ions tend to be bonded together in a transitional step that finally lead to replacement of ferric atom (Iron III) by Aluminum ion and Aluminum oxide made up.
The industrial use of Thermite Reaction: due to high energy released when Aluminum replace iron from iron oxide… reaction is exothermic and the energy released in the chemical system can be used in welding iron.

Single displacement reaction used to make magnesium hydroxide
when magnesium replaces hydrogen in water to make magnesium hydroxide and hydrogen gas: 
Equation is: " Mg + 2 H2O --- Mg(OH)2 + H2"  
What happened in this reaction? 
Hydrogen is a combination of (H+) ions and (OH-) ions and when magnesium added it will combine with (OH-) ions to form magnesium hydroxide, thus the hydrogen cation replaced by Magnesium cations.

Chemical Reaction used in Formation of Tin Crystals 
Equation of the reaction is:
"SnCl2 (Tin (II) Chloride) + Zn (solid) –-acid medium--- Zn Cl2"  
1st Ionic equation: "Sn2+ + H+ ---- H2 released + sn2- (crystals)"  
2nd Ionic equation: "sn2- (crystals) + Zn ---- (Sn-Zn-Sn) crystal "

How these reactions occur? Acidic medium allows strong oxidation reduction reaction due to excess of electrons donated to the system by acids (H+).
If a chemical beaker filled with an acid and added to the acid the Tin (II) Chloride and a piece of Zn Metal.
First ionic equation tells us that Sn has reduced to Sn2- ions and Hydrogen ions combined in hydrogen gas molecules and released while the formed Tin ions reacts in the second ionic equation with the Zinc element and coat it to produce a needle of Zinc coated by Tin crystals.

The chemical reaction used in Formation of Silver Crystals: 
The net equation followed by simple interpretation of ionic equations
"AgNO3 + Cu ----- CuNO3 + Ag "
When a wire of copper immersed in a solution of Silver nitrate
The following ionic equations must occur:
"Cu Metal ----- Cu2+ ions "
it is indicated an oxidation process of the copper to copper ions that indicated by coloring the solution by the color blue
"Ag2+ ions ---- Ag Metal "
It is indicated a reduction process of the Silver and precipitated on the surface of the Copper wire

3. Double-Replacement Reaction 
The ions of two compounds exchange places in an aqueous solution to form two new compounds/molecules.
Simple equation interprets the double displacement reaction is:
" AB + CD ---- AC + BD "
Examples of double displacement reaction by equations: 
Formation of silver chloride from sodium chloride in a Aqueous solution 
Equation is:
" NaCl + AgNO3 ---- Na+ + Cl- + Ag+ + NO3- ----- AgCl + NaNO3 "
Interpretation of the above equation is: Replacement of charged ions between the two components of the reaction, each Ion bonded with the other different ion in the other compound, lead to formation of Silver chloride and Sodium nitrate.

Formation of Lead (II) Iodide from Lead (II) Nitrate 
An aqueous solution of Potassium Iodide is added to an aqueous solution of Lead (II) Nitrate forming lead (II) iodide. The formation of a precipitate occurs when the cations of one reactant combines with the anions of the other reactant to form an insoluble or slightly insoluble compound.
" 2KI + Pb(NO3)2 ---- 2KNO3 + PbI2 "

Acid rain reactions is an example of Double-Replacement Reaction 
Net equation is:
" SO2 + H2O ---- H2SO3 (sulfurous acid) "
" CaCo3 (in the marble) + 2H2SO3 ---- H2CO3 + 2CaSO4 " 

Interpretation of the marble equations: 
This marble statue has been eroded by acid rain. Marble is a material having CaCO3 as its primary component. Acids react with and dissolve the marble. The acid comes from sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere combining with water to form sulfurous acid.

4.Acid-base reactions :  
It is a special kind of double displacement reaction that takes place when an acid and base react with each other. The H+ ion in the acid reacts with the OH- ion in the base, causing the formation of water. Acid-base reactions generally produce ionic salt and water; some books categorize acid-base reactions as a different type of chemical reactions.
General Equation of Acid-base reactions is: 
" HA + BOH ---> H2O + BA "
where HA represents Acid, BOH represents any Base, and BA is a formed salt
One example of an acid-base reaction is the reaction of hydro-bromic acid (HBr) with sodium hydroxide (NaOH):
Chemical equation is: "HBr + NaOH ---> NaBr + H2O"  

5. Decomposition Reactions 
Under specific conditions in certain ways can dissolution/ Decomposition of a compound into molecules or composite materials simpler than it, the decomposition reactions route is the is the opposite of a synthesis reactions.
Simple Equation represents Decomposition Reaction: 
" AB ----- A + B "
Example Reactions undergoes a Decomposition Reaction route: 
Water electrolysis: 
Electrolysis is a chemical analysis of substances by Electric current, when direct current is passed through water to degrade as a form of oxygen and hydrogen. The volume of hydrogen gas produced at the cathode is twice the size of oxygen gas formed at the anode. This indicates that water is double the number of hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, which is an example of the law of constant composition.
Equation of Water electrolysis is: " 2H2O ----- 2H2 + O2 " 

Decomposition of Nitrogen Triiodide 
Equation: " 2NI3 ---- N2 + 3I2 "
Interpretation: Nitrogen tri-iodide is extremely unstable when it is dry, if you touch it, it will explode with high energy due to decomposition of its components into Nitrogen which cannot indicated but Iodine can be because iodine has a violet color and appear as a violet cloud after explosion.

6. Combustion Reaction 
Combustion Reactions are common in Organic chemistry, and it is the opposite route of decomposition reactions.
When the material is burned in the presence of atmospheric oxygen, the material will decompose into oxygen and water, releasing a large amount of energy in the form of light and heat, so that organic chemistry compounds is a high usable source of energy, due to the Combustion reactions are exothermic.
Common equation is: " C10H8 + 12O2 ---- 10 CO2 + 4 H2O "
Direct Example is methane combustion: Equation of methane is: " CH4 + 2O2 ---- CO2 + 2 H2O "

What is happened when methane burned with oxygen? 
Where the Methane is the simplest organic compounds that commonly called Hydrocarbons, methane consists of one carbon atom combined with four atoms of hydrogen. 

And Various Substances when burned with Oxygen as Magnesium, steel wool, white phosphorous, and sulfur are burned in oxygen. The resulting reactions are combination reactions in which two substances react to form one product. The products formed in these reactions are " MgO, Fe2O3, P4O10 and SO2 ". All of these combustion reactions are very exothermic. 

Examples of Combustion Reactions: 
Production of artificial water (artificial rains): 
When Hydrogen burned/Combusted in atmospheric oxygen they combined with explosion and form Water and appeared as rains.
" H2 + O2 ----- H2O " 

Formation of phosphorus pentoxide "P2O5"
When combustion of yellow phosphorus carried out in an oxygen atmosphere its produce mainly the phosphorus pentoxide and high quantity of heat will be released because the Combustion reactions are exothermic.

How to predict the chemical reaction type?

After reading the characteristics of each type of chemical reaction and fully understand the interpreted examples and equations, we can make a six elements checklist to predict and figuring what is the kind of reaction takes place in an equation given.
Look to what compound in the reactants and in the product sides to identify the reaction integrity, if:

  1. One molecular compound with oxygen it is likely to be a combustion reaction if the products are carbon dioxide and water
  2. If two molecular compounds are react in the initial stage and only one compound produced it is likely to be synthesis reaction
  3. If one compound/molecule breakdown and found two or more molecules in the products, it is sure a decomposition reaction that the equation represents.
  4. But if you found a compound or large molecule reacts with only an element. It is likely to be a single displacement reaction. 
  5. If the reaction products are ionic salt and water, it must be acid-base reactions, and the best proof of evidence is to find acid and base in the reactant side of the equation. 
  6. If nothing of the previous criteria achieved, no way that the equation represents a double displacement reaction. 

Training examples on How to recognize/predict the type of the reaction of any given equation

to learn how to get the solution of any chemistry problems about the type of the reaction:

Problem Number 1) what is this equation describe: "NaOH + KNO3 --> NaNO3 + KOH" 
Answer is: double displacement reaction, the indicator is that two molecules rearranged in two different molecules, by exchange opposite charges.

Problem Number 2) what kind of reaction described in the following equation: 
" CH4 + 2 O2 --> CO2 + 2 H2O "
Answer is: combustion reaction, water and carbon dioxide is the high proof of combustion reactions.

Problem Number 3) what is the kind of reactions described by the equation: " 2 Fe + 6 NaBr --> 2 FeBr3 + 6 Na "
Solution is: single displacement reaction, only one element replaced in a molecule

Problem Number 4) Is the following equation represents an aid-base reaction 
" CaSO4 + Mg (OH)2 --> Ca(OH)2 + MgSO4 "
Answer is: No it is double displacement reaction, but not acid-base kind because the reactants not contain acids or bases.

Problem Number 5) How to determine the reaction route in the following equation? " NH4OH + HBr --> H2O + NH4Br "

Problem Solution is: acid-base reaction, because reactants have acid reacts with a base and salt + water are produced. 
Problem Number 6)" Pb + O2 --> PbO2 "what the type of reactions occurred in this equation?
Answer is: synthesis reaction, two elements produce one molecule, it is ideal combination/synthesis reaction. 

Problem Number 7) " Na2CO3 --> Na2O + CO2 " 
Solution is: the reaction should be a decomposition reaction, because one large molecule produces two smaller molecules.

Organic types of chemical reactions 
Chemical Reactions in organic chemistry can take place which involve covalent bonds between carbon atoms or carbon and heteroatom (such as oxygen, nitrogen, halogens, etc.), and may follow some inorganic route as oxidation-reduction reactions and/or acid-base reactions, in organic chemistry, many synthesis reactions named after the name of the scientist discovered the reaction route..

Reactions in the organic chemistry have three basic types and they are: Substitution, Addition and elimination, and many types are depend on those three types as rearrangement reaction, and Biochemical reactions (enzyme linking and hormones stimulation, phosphorylation, alkylation …, etc); actually they are mechanisms and shouldn't categorized as a different chemical reaction types.
Because organic chemistry reaction are needed for more explanation and it is a very long story indeed, later I will put individual post about reactions in chemistry and how to decide each type of the reactions in any given equation.
Specific Organic reactions which named after its discoverer or because after the route of rearrangement of organic chemical bonds, it is a big list to name it, and here it with alphabetical order:

1,3-dipolar cycloaddition
2,3-Wittig rearrangement
Abramovitch-Shapiro tryptamine synthesis
Acetalisation
Acetoacetic ester condensation
Achmatowicz reaction
Acylation
Acyloin condensation
Adams catalyst
Adams decarboxylation
Adkins catalyst
Adkins-Peterson reaction
Akabori amino acid reaction
Alcohol oxidation
Alder ene reaction
Alder-Stein rules
Aldol addition
Aldol condensation
Algar-Flynn-Oyamada reaction
Alkylimino-de-oxo-bisubstitution
Alkyne trimerisation
Alkyne zipper reaction
Allan-Robinson reaction
Allylic rearrangement
Amadori rearrangement
Amine alkylation
Angeli-Rimini reaction
Andrussov oxidation
Appel reaction
Arbuzov reaction, Arbusow reaction
Arens-van Dorp synthesis, Isler modification
Aromatic nitration
Arndt-Eistert synthesis
Auwers synthesis
Azo coupling
Baeyer-Drewson indigo synthesis
Baeyer-Villiger oxidation
Baeyer-Villiger rearrangement
Bakeland process (Bakelite)
Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement, Baker-Venkataraman transformation
Bally-Scholl synthesis
Balz-Schiemann reaction
Bamberger rearrangement
Bamberger triazine synthesis
Bamford-Stevens reaction
Barbier-Wieland degradation
Bardhan-Senguph phenanthrene synthesis
Barfoed's test
Bartoli indole synthesis, Bartoli reaction
Barton reaction
Barton-Kellogg reaction
Barton-McCombie reaction, Barton deoxygenation
Barton Zard Synthesis
Barton vinyl iodine procedure
Baudisch reaction
Bayer test
Baylis-Hillman reaction
Bechamp reaction
Bechamp reduction
Beckmann fragmentation
Beckmann rearrangement
Bellus-Claisen rearrangement
Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction
Benary reaction
Benedict's reagent
Benkeser reaction
Benzidine rearrangement
Benzilic acid rearrangement
Benzoin condensation
Bergman cyclization
Bergmann azlactone peptide synthesis
Bergmann degradation
Bergmann-Zervas carbobenzoxy method
Bernthsen acridine synthesis
Bestmann's reagent
Betti reaction
Biginelli pyrimidine synthesis
Biginelli reaction
Bingel reaction
Birch reduction
Bischler-Möhlau indole synthesis
Bischler-Napieralski reaction
Biuret test
Blaise ketone synthesis
Blaise reaction
Blanc reaction
Blanc chloromethylation
Bodroux reaction
Bodroux-Chichibabin aldehyde synthesis
Bogert-Cook synthesis
Bohn-Schmidt reaction
Boord olefin synthesis
Borodin reaction
Borsche-Drechsel cyclization
Bosch-Meiser urea process
Bouveault aldehyde synthesis
Bouveault-Blanc reduction
Boyland-Sims oxidation
Boyer Reaction
Bredt's rule
Brown hydroboration
Bucherer carbazole synthesis
Bucherer reaction
Bucherer–Bergs reaction
Buchner ring enlargement
Buchner-Curtius-Schlotterbeck reaction
Buchwald-Hartwig amination
Bunnett reaction
Cadiot-Chodkiewicz coupling
Camps quinoline synthesis
Cannizzaro reaction
Carbohydrate acetalisation
Carbonyl reduction
Carbonylation
Carbylamine reaction
Carroll reaction
Castro-Stephens coupling
Catalytic reforming
CBS reduction
Chan-Lam coupling
Chapman rearrangement
Cheletropic reaction
Chichibabin pyridine synthesis
Chichibabin reaction
Chiral pool synthesis
Chugaev elimination
Ciamician-Dennstedt rearrangement
Claisen condensation
Claisen rearrangement
Claisen-Schmidt condensation
Clemmensen reduction
Collins-Reagent
Combes quinoline synthesis
Conia reaction
Conrad-Limpach synthesis
Corey-Gilman-Ganem oxidation
Cook-Heilbron thiazole synthesis
Cope elimination
Cope rearrangement
Corey reagent
Corey-Bakshi-Shibata reduction
Corey-Fuchs reaction
Corey-Kim oxidation
Corey-Posner, Whitesides-House reaction
Corey-Winter olefin synthesis
Corey-Winter reaction
Coupling reaction
Craig method
Cram's rule of asymmetric induction
Creighton process
Criegee reaction
Criegee rearrangement
Cross metathesis
Crum Brown-Gibson rule
Curtius degradation
Curtius rearrangement, Curtius reaction
Cyanohydrin reaction
Dakin reaction
Dakin-West reaction
Danheiser Annulation
Darapsky degradation
Darzens condensation, Darzens-Claisen reaction, Glycidic ester condensation
Darzens synthesis of unsaturated ketones
Darzens tetralin synthesis
Dehydration reaction
Dehydrogenation
Delepine reaction
Demjanov rearrangement
Demjanow desamination
Dess-Martin oxidation
Diazoalkane 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition
Diazotisation
DIBAL-H selective reduction
Dieckmann condensation
Dieckmann reaction
Diels-Alder reaction
Diels Reese reaction
Dienol benzene rearrangement
Dienone phenol rearrangement
Dimroth rearrangement
Di-pi-methane rearrangement
Directed ortho metalation
Doebner modification
Doebner reaction
Doebner-Miller reaction, Beyer method for quinolines
Doering-LaFlamme carbon chain extension
Dötz reaction
Dowd-Beckwith ring expansion reaction
Duff reaction
Dutt-Wormall reaction
Dyotropic reaction
E1cB elimination reaction
Eder reaction
Edman degradation
Eglinton reaction
Ehrlich-Sachs reaction
Einhorn variant
Einhorn-Brunner reaction
Elbs persulfate oxidation
Elbs reaction
Electrochemical fluorination
Electrocyclic reaction
Electrophilic halogenation
Electrophilic amination
Elimination reaction
Emde degradation
Emmert reaction
Ene reaction
Enyne metathesis
Epoxidation
Erlenmeyer synthesis, Azlactone synthesis
Erlenmeyer-Plöchl azlactone and amino acid synthesis
Eschenmoser fragmentation
Eschweiler-Clarke reaction
Ester pyrolysis
Ether cleavage
Étard reaction
Evans aldol
Favorskii reaction
Favorskii rearrangement
Favorskii-Babayan synthesis
Fehling test
Feist-Benary synthesis
Fenton reaction
Ferrario reaction
Ferrier carbocyclization
Ferrier rearrangement
Finkelstein reaction
Fischer indole synthesis
Fischer oxazole synthesis
Fischer peptide synthesis
Fischer phenylhydrazine and oxazone reaction
Fischer glycosidation
Fischer-Hepp rearrangement
Fischer-Speier esterification
Fischer Tropsch synthesis
Fleming-Tamao oxidation
Flood reaction
Folin-Ciocalteu reagent
Formox process
Forster reaction
Forster-Decker method
Fowler Process
Franchimont reaction
Frankland synthesis
Frankland-Duppa reaction
Free radical halogenation
Freund reaction
Friedel-Crafts Acylation
Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
Friedländer synthesis
Fries rearrangement
Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell rearrangement
Fujimoto-Belleau reaction
Fukuyama coupling
Fukuyama indole synthesis
Fukuyama reduction
Gabriel ethylenimine method
Gabriel synthesis
Gabriel-Colman rearrangement, Gabriel isoquinoline synthesis
Gallagher-Hollander degradation
Gassman indole synthesis
Gastaldi synthesis
Gattermann aldehyde synthesis
Gattermann Koch reaction
Gattermann reaction
Geminal halide hydrolysis
Gewald reaction
Gibbs phthalic anhydride process
Gilman reagent
Glaser coupling
Glycol cleavage
Gomberg-Bachmann reaction
Gomberg-Bachmann-Hey reaction
Gomberg-Free radical reaction
Gould-Jacobs reaction
Graebe-Ullmann synthesis
Grignard degradation
Grignard reaction
Grob fragmentation
Groove synthesis
Grubbs' catalyst in Olefin metathesis
Grundmann aldehyde synthesis
Gryszkiewicz-Trochimowski and McCombie method
Guareschi-Thorpe condensation
Guerbet reaction
Gutknecht pyrazine synthesis
Haller-Bauer reaction
Haloform reaction
Halogen addition reaction
Halohydrin formation reaction
Hammett equation
Hammick reaction
Hammond-Principle or Hammond postulate
Hantzsch pyrrole synthesis
Hantzsch dihydropyridine synthesis, Hantzsch pyridine synthesis
Hantzsch Pyridine synthesis, Gattermann-Skita synthesis, Guareschi-Thorpe condensation, Knoevenagel-Fries modification
Hantzsch-Collidin-synthesis
Harber-Weiss reaction
Harries ozonide reaction
Haworth methylation
Haworth Phenanthrene synthesis
Haworth-reaction
Hay coupling
Hayashi rearrangement
Heck reaction
Helferich method
Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky halogenation
Hemetsberger indole synthesis
Hemetsberger-Knittel synthesis
Henkel reaction, Raecke process, Henkel process
Henry reaction, Kamlet reaction
Herz reaction, Herz compounds
Herzig-Meyer alkimide group determination
Heumann indigo synthesis
Hydration reaction
Hydroamination
Hydrodesulfurization
Hydrogenolysis
Hydrosilylation
Hinsberg indole synthesis
Hinsberg oxindole synthesis
Hinsberg reaction
Hinsberg separation
Hinsberg sulfone synthesis
Hoch-Campbell ethylenimine synthesis
Hock rearrangement
Hofmann degradation, Exhaustive methylation
Hofmann elimination
Hofmann Isonitrile synthesis, Carbylamine reaction
Hofmann produkt
Hofmann rearrangement
Hofmann-Löffler reaction, Löffler-Freytag reaction, Hofmann-Löffler-Freytag reaction
Hofmann-Martius rearrangement
Hofmann's Rule
Hofmann-Sand reaction
Homo rearrangement of steroids
Hooker reaction
Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons reaction
Hoesch reaction
Hosomi-Sakurai reaction
Houben-Fischer synthesis
Hudlicky fluorination
Hunsdiecker reaction
Hydroboration
Hydrocarbon cracking
Hydrohalogenation
Indium mediated allylation
Ing-Manske procedure
Ipso substitution
Ishikawa reagent
trans-cis isomerism
Ivanov reagent, Ivanov reaction
Jacobsen epoxidation
Jacobsen rearrangement
Janovsky reaction
Japp-Klingemann reaction
Japp-Maitland condensation
Johnson-Claisen rearrangement
Jones oxidation
Jordan-Ullmann-Goldberg synthesis
Julia olefination
Julia–Lythgoe olefination
Kabachnik–Fields reaction
Kharasch–Sosnovsky reaction
Ketone halogenation
Kiliani–Fischer synthesis
Kindler reaction
Kishner cyclopropane synthesis
Knoevenagel condensation
Knorr pyrazole synthesis
Knorr pyrrole synthesis
Knorr quinoline synthesis
Koch–Haaf reaction
Kochi reaction
Koenigs–Knorr reaction
Kolbe electrolysis
Kolbe–Schmitt reaction
König method
Kornblum oxidation
Kornblum–DeLaMare rearrangement
Kostanecki acylation
Kowalski ester homologation
Krapcho decarboxylation
Kröhnke aldehyde synthesis
Kröhnke oxidation
Kröhnke pyridine synthesis
Kucherov reaction
Kuhn–Winterstein reaction
Kulinkovich reaction
Kumada coupling
Larock indole synthesis
Lebedev process
Lehmstedt-Tanasescu reaction
Leimgruber-Batcho indole synthesis
Letts nitrile synthesis
Leuckart reaction
Leuckart thiophenol reaction
Leuckart-Wallach reaction
Leuckart amide synthesis
Levinstein process
Ley oxidation
Lieben iodoform reaction, Haloform reaction
Liebeskind–Srogl coupling
Liebig melamine synthesis
Lindlar catalyst
Lobry–de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation
Lossen rearrangement
Lucas' reagent
Luche reduction
Maillard reaction
Madelung synthesis
Malaprade reaction, Periodic acid oxidation
Malonic ester synthesis
Mannich reaction
Markó–Lam deoxygenation
Markovnikov's rule, Markownikoff rule, Markownikow rule
Martinet dioxindole synthesis
McDougall monoprotection
McFadyen–Stevens reaction
McMurry reaction
Meerwein arylation
Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction
Meisenheimer rearrangement
Meissenheimer complex
Menshutkin reaction
Metal-ion-catalyzed σ-bond rearrangement
Mesylation
Merckwald asymmetric synthesis
Methylation
Meyer and Hartmann reaction
Meyer reaction
Meyer synthesis
Meyer–Schuster rearrangement
Michael addition
Michael addition, Michael system
Michael condensation
Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction
Mignonac reaction
Milas hydroxylation of olefins
Mitsunobu reaction
Molisch's test
Mukaiyama aldol addition
Mukaiyama reaction
Myers' asymmetric alkylation
Nametkin rearrangement
Nazarov cyclization reaction
Neber rearrangement
Nef reaction
Negishi coupling
Negishi-Zipper reaction
Nenitzescu indole synthesis
Nenitzescu reductive acylation
Nicholas reaction
Niementowski quinazoline synthesis
Niementowski quinoline synthesis
Nierenstein reaction
NIH shift
Ninhydrin test
Nitroaldol reaction
Nitrone-olefin 3+2 cycloaddition
Normant reagents
Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation
Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi nickel/chromium coupling reaction
Ohira–Bestmann reaction
Olah reagent
Olefin metathesis
Oppenauer oxidation
Ostromyslenskii reaction, Ostromisslenskii reaction
Oxidative decarboxylation
Oxo synthesis
Oxy-Cope rearrangement
Oxymercuration
Oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones
Ozonolysis
Paal-Knorr pyrrole synthesis
Paal-Knorr synthesis
Paneth technique
Passerini reaction
Paternò–Büchi reaction
Pauson-Khand reaction
Payne rearrangement
Pechmann condensation
Pechmann pyrazole synthesis
Pellizzari reaction
Pelouze synthesis
Peptide synthesis
Perkin alicyclic synthesis
Perkin reaction
Perkin rearrangement
Perkow reaction
Petasis reaction
Petasis reagent
Peterson olefination
Peterson reaction
Petrenko-Kritschenko piperidone synthesis
Pfau-Plattner azulene synthesis
Pfitzinger reaction
Pfitzner-Moffatt oxidation
Piancatelli rearrangement
Pictet-Gams isoquinoline synthesis
Pictet-Hubert reaction
Pictet-Spengler tetrahydroisoquinoline synthesis
Pictet-Spengler reaction
Piloty-Robinson pyrrole synthesis
Pinacol coupling reaction
Pinacol rearrangement
Pinner amidine synthesis
Pinner method for ortho esters
Pinner reaction
Pinner triazine synthesis
Piria reaction
Pitzer strain
Polonovski reaction
Pomeranz-Fritsch reaction
Ponzio reaction
Prato reaction
Prelog strain
Prevost reaction
Prileschajew reaction
Prilezhaev reaction
Prins reaction
Prinzbach synthesis
Protecting group
Pschorr reaction
Pummerer rearrangement
Purdie methylation, Irvine-Purdie methylation
Quelet reaction
Ramberg-Backlund reaction
Raney-Nickel
Rap-Stoermer condensation
Raschig phenol process
Rauhut–Currier reaction
Racemization
Reductive amination
Reductive dehalogenation of halo ketones
Reed reaction
Reformatskii reaction
Reilly-Hickinbottom rearrangement
Reimer-Tiemann reaction
Reissert indole synthesis
Reissert reaction, Reissert compound
Reppe synthesis
Retropinacol rearrangement
Rieche formylation
Riemschneider thiocarbamate synthesis
Riley oxidations
Rothemund synthesis
Ring closing metathesis
Ring opening metathesis
Ritter reaction
Robinson annulation
Robinson-Gabriel synthesis
Robinson Schopf reaction
Rosenmund reaction
Rosenmund reduction
Rosenmund-von Braun synthesis
Rothemund reaction
Rupe rearrangement
Rubottom oxidation
Ruff-Fenton degradation
Ruzicka large ring synthesis
Sakurai reaction
Salol reaction
Sandheimer
Sandmeyer diphenylurea isatin synthesis
Sandmeyer isonitrosoacetanilide isatin synthesis
Sandmeyer reaction
Sanger reagent
Saponification
Sarett oxidation
Saytzeff rule, Saytzeff's Rule
Schiemann reaction
Schiff reaction
Schiff test
Schlenk equilibrium
Schlosser modification
Schlosser variant
Schmidlin ketene synthesis
Schmidt degradation
Schmidt reaction
Scholl reaction
Schorigin Shorygin reaction, Shorygin reaction, Wanklyn reaction
Schotten-Baumann reaction
Seliwanoff's test
Semidine rearrangement
Semmler-Wolff reaction
Seyferth-Gilbert homologation
Shapiro reaction
Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation
Sharpless epoxidation
Sharpless oxyamination or aminohydroxylation
Shenck ene reaction
Sigmatropic reaction
Simmons–Smith reaction
Simonini reaction
Simonis chromone cyclization
Simons process
Skraup chinolin synthesis
Skraup reaction
Smiles rearrangement
SNAr nucleophilic aromatic substitution
SN1
SN2
SNi
Solvolysis
Sommelet reaction
Sonn-Müller method
Sonogashira coupling
Sørensen formol titration
Staedel-Rugheimer pyrazine synthesis
Staudinger reaction
Stephen aldehyde synthesis
Stetter reaction
Stevens rearrangement
Stieglitz rearrangement
Stille coupling
Stobbe condensation
Stollé synthesis
Stork acylation
Stork enamine alkylation
Strecker amino acid synthesis
Strecker degradation
Strecker sulfite alkylation
Strecker synthesis
Suzuki coupling
Swain equation
Swarts reaction
Swern oxidation
Tamao oxidation
Tafel rearrangement
Takai olefination
Tebbe olefination
ter Meer reaction
Thiele reaction
Thiol-yne reaction
Thorpe reaction
Tiemann rearrangement
Tiffeneau ring enlargement reaction
Tiffeneau-Demjanow rearrangement
Tischtschenko reaction
Tishchenko reaction, Tischischenko-Claisen reaction
Tollens reagent
Transfer hydrogenation
Trapp mixture
Transesterification
Traube purine synthesis
Truce-Smiles rearrangement
Tscherniac-Einhorn reaction
Tschitschibabin reaction
Tschugajeff reaction
Twitchell process
Tyrer sulfonation process
Ugi reaction
Ullmann reaction
Upjohn dihydroxylation
Urech cyanohydrin method
Urech hydantoin synthesis
Van Slyke determination
Varrentrapp reaction
Vilsmeier reaction
Vilsmeier-Haack reaction
Voight amination
Volhard-Erdmann cyclization
von Braun amide degradation
von Braun reaction
von Richter cinnoline synthesis
von Richter reaction
Wacker-Tsuji oxidation
Wagner-Jauregg reaction
Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement
Waits–Scheffer epoxidation
Walden inversion
Wallach rearrangement
Weerman degradation
Weinreb ketone synthesis
Wenker ring closure
Wenker synthesis
Wessely-Moser rearrangement
Westphalen-Lettré rearrangement
Wharton reaction
Whiting reaction
Wichterle reaction
Widman-Stoermer synthesis
Wilkinson catalyst
Willgerodt rearrangement
Willgerodt-Kindler reaction
Williamson ether synthesis
Winstein reaction
Wittig reaction
Wittig rearrangement
Wittig-Horner reaction
Wohl degradation
Wohl-Aue reaction
Wohler synthesis
Wohl-Ziegler reaction
Wolffenstein-Böters reaction
Wolff rearrangement
Wolff-Kishner reduction
Woodward cis-hydroxylation
Woodward-Hoffmann rule
Wulff-Dötz reaction
Wurtz coupling, Wurtz reaction
Wurtz-Fittig reaction
Yamada-Okamoto purine synthesis
Yamaguchi esterification
Zeisel determination
Zerevitinov determination, Zerewitinoff determination
Ziegler condensation
Ziegler method
Zimmermann reaction
Zincke disulfide cleavage
Zinke nitration
Zincke reaction
Zincke-Suhl reaction
Zinin reduction

MCQ suggestions to help you understand Types of chemical reactions
 
How can you indicate this equation is true? Zn + O2 ---- Zn+ + 2O- ---- ZnO It's indicated by observing the precipitate of Zn Oxide at the bottom of the tube/beaker

What is the indicator of formation the aluminum bromide from Aluminum and Brome? It is simply the heat released and the color of Aluminum Bromide

In displacement reaction in this equation, how can you prove the reaction is occurred? Fe2O3 + Al ---- Al2O3
It is detected by the high energy released

What is the indicator of the reaction in the equation of Formation of Tin Crystals? SnCl2 (Tin (II) Chloride) + Zn (solid) –-acid medium--- Zn Cl2
It is a needle of Zinc coated by Tin crystals.

How to indicate the reaction of formation the silver nitrate using a wire of copper? As the reaction progress the solution colored blue due to formation of Copper nitrate and the silver ions coating the copper wire as the following equation
AgNO3 + Cu ----- CuNO3 + Ag

What is the Indicator of the reaction between Sodium chloride and Silver Nitrate? It is the formation of silver  chloride which has a special color.

How to be sure that a Decomposition reaction of Nitrogen Triiodide happened? Extreme explosion and followed by a violent color clouds of Iodine appeared
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