In organic chemistry, the Wurtz reaction, named after Charles Adolphe Wurtz, is a coupling reaction in which two alkyl halides are treated with sodium...

The Wurtz–Fittig reaction is the chemical reaction of an aryl halide, alkyl halides, and sodium metal to give substituted aromatic compounds. Following...

ethylamine, ethylene glycol, and the aldol reaction. Wurtz was also an influential writer and educator. Adolphe Wurtz (he never used the name "Charles") was...

organic chemistry, a coupling reaction is a type of reaction in which two reactant molecules are bonded together. Such reactions often require the aid of a...

with sodium, causing an intramolecular Wurtz reaction leading directly to cyclopropane. The yield of the reaction was improved by Gustavson in 1887 with...

CH2=CHR' → RC(O)CH2CH2R' Nazarov cyclization reaction for the synthesis of cyclopentenones The Wurtz reaction, involving reductive coupling of alkyl halides...

cis-hydroxylation Woodward–Hoffmann rule Wulff–Dötz reaction Wurtz coupling, Wurtz reaction Wurtz–Fittig reaction Yamada–Okamoto purine synthesis Yamaguchi esterification...

and by the French chemist Charles-Adolphe Wurtz in 1872, which originally used aldehydes to perform the reaction. Howard Zimmerman and Marjorie D. Traxler...

certain reactions. Examples of reactions requiring the use of anhydrous solvents are the Grignard reaction and the Wurtz reaction. Solvents have typically been...

year, E. Haworth and W.H. Perkin Jr. (1860–1929) prepared it via a Wurtz reaction of 1,6-dibromohexane. Although rather unreactive, cyclohexane undergoes...