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Outline of organic chemistry

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to organic chemistry:

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Organic chemistry – scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) 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
  • Drug design

    • Current trends (as of 2008) in organic chemistry include:

  • Chiral synthesis
  • Flow chemistry
  • Fullerenes
  • Green chemistry
  • Microwave chemistry
  • Microwave spectroscopy

    • 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 alkyl halides, diols, 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
  • m-Xylenes
  • o-Xylenes
  • p-Xylenes
  • Aryl halides
  • Carbohydrates
  • Sugar
  • Carbonyl compounds
  • Acid anhydride
  • Acyl halides
  • Acyl chlorides
  • Aldehydes
  • Amides
  • Lactams
  • Carboxylic acids
  • Enones
  • Esters
  • Lactones
  • Imides
  • Ketones
  • Enols
  • Enolate anions
  • Enamines
  • Ethers
  • Epoxides
  • Sulfides
  • Imines
  • Schiff bases
  • Ketenes
  • Lipids
  • Nitriles
  • Nucleic acids
  • Organometallic compounds
  • Oximes

    • Reactions

    See also List of organic 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
  • Oppenauer oxidation
  • Rubottom oxidation
  • 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
  • Azide-alkyne Huisgen cycloaddition
  • 1,3-Dipolar cycloaddition
  • Diels–Alder reaction
  • Nitrone-olefin (3+2) cycloaddition
  • Staudinger Ketene-Imine Cycloaddition
  • Dyotropic reaction
  • Electrocyclic reaction
  • Group transfer reaction
  • Sigmatropic reaction
  • Polymerization
  • Ring-opening metathesis polymerisation
  • 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

    • References

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