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 (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

Current trends
Current trends in organic chemistry include (as of 2020):


 * 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 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
 * 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
 * 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