List of inorganic reactions

Well-known types of reactions that involve inorganic compounds include:

• Alkylation
• Alkyne trimerisation
• Alkyne metathesis
• Aminolysis
• Amination
• Arylation
• Barbier reaction
• Beta-hydride elimination
• Birch reduction
• Bönnemann cyclization
• Bromination
• Buchwald–Hartwig coupling
• Cadiot–Chodkiewicz coupling
• Calcination
• Carbometalation
• Carbothermal reduction
• Carbonation
• Carbonylation
• Castro–Stephens coupling
• Clemmensen reduction
• Chain walking
• Chan–Lam coupling
• Chlorination
• Comproportionation
• C–C coupling
• C–H activation
• Cyanation
• Cyclometalation
• Decarbonylation
• Decarboxylation
• Dehydration
• Dehalogenation
• Dehydrogenation
• Dehydrohalogenation
• Deprotonation
• Desilylation
• Dimerisation
• Disproportionation
• Dötz reaction
• Eder reaction
• Electromerism
• Electron transfer (inner sphere and outer sphere)
• Étard reaction
• Fenton oxidation
• Fischer–Tropsch process
• Fluorination
• Formylation
• Fowler process
• Fukuyama coupling
• Glaser coupling
• Gomberg–Bachmann reaction
• Haber–Weiss reaction
• Halcon process
• Halogenation
• Hay coupling
• Heck reaction
• Heck–Matsuda reaction
• Hiyama coupling
• Hofmann-Sand reaction
• Homolysis
• Huisgen cycloaddition
• Hydride reduction
• Hydroamination
• Hydration
• Hydroboration
• Hydrocarboxylation
• Hydrocyanation
• Hydrodesulfurization
• Hydroformylation
• Hydrogenation
• Hydrohalogenation
• Hydrolysis
• Hydrometalation
• Hydrosilylation
• Iodination
• Isomerisation
• Jones oxidation
• Kulinkovich reaction
• Kumada coupling
• Lemieux–Johnson oxidation
• Ley oxidation
• Linkage isomerization
• Luche reduction
• McMurry reaction
• Meerwein–Ponndorf–Verley reduction
• Mercuration
• Methylation
• Migratory insertion
• Negishi coupling
• Nicholas reaction
• Nitrosylation
• Noyori asymmetric hydrogenation
• Olefin polymerization
• Oppenauer oxidation
• Oxidation
• Oxidative addition
• Oxygenation
• Oxymercuration reaction
• Pauson–Khand reaction
• Photodissociation
• Pseudorotation
• Protonation
• Protonolysis
• Proton-coupled electron transfer
• Racemization
• Redox reactions (see list of oxidants and reductants)
• Reduction
• Reductive elimination
• Reppe synthesis
• Riley oxidation
• Salt metathesis
• Sarett oxidation
• Sharpless epoxidation
• Shell higher olefin process
• Silylation
• Simmons–Smith reaction
• Sonogashira coupling
• Staudinger reaction
• Stille reaction
• Sulfidation
• Suzuki reaction
• Transmetalation
• Ullmann reaction
• Upjohn dihydroxylation
• Wacker process
• Water gas shift reaction
• Water oxidation
• Wurtz coupling
• Ziegler-Natta polymerization

See also

• List of organic reactions
• Named inorganic compounds
• List of inorganic compounds
• Inorganic compounds by element