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Organic synthesis with Thermo Scientific chemicals

Find compounds for each step of your organic synthesis workflow, including a wide variety of Thermo ScientificTM chemicals, catalysts, and reagents to progress your research with:

• Appropriate starting materials
• Increasing yield
• Supporting scale up

Whether you’re performing structural analysis and confirmation by NMR or using qualitative techniques, our products will help you complete your synthesis workflow. Scroll through a selection of our products below, or discover the entire range using our search bar.

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Building Blocks

Over 20,000 building blocks are available. A small selection of popular boronic acids and esters are listed here.

Organic Reagents

Our extensive range of functional and synthetic reagents, including air- and moisture sensitive products in industry-leading AcroSeal™ packaging.

Organometallics

Wide-ranging organometallics including Grignard reagents, organolithium and organozinc compounds, with options for concentration, purity and pack size.

Catalysts

Providing an extensive range of catalysts, including precious metal compounds and homogeneous catalysts in varying purities and concentrations.

Essential Chemicals

Our complete range of ‘essentials’ – from solvents to drying agents, acids and bases, to help create the perfect environment and achieve highest yields.

Purification products

Providing purification products, including solvents, silica and alumina, when you need them.

Analytical products

For IR, UV and NMR spectroscopy, our broad range includes deuterated products with pack sizes, purities, standards and stabilisers to suit your requirements.


WOLFF KISHNER REDUCTION
Learn more on Wolff Kishner Reduction which explains the reduction of aldehydes and ketones to alkanes.

WITTIG REACTION
Discover the Wittig Reaction allowing the preparation of an alkene by the reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with the ylide generated from a phosphonium salt.

FISCHER INDOLE SYNTHESIS
Know more on the Fischer Indole Synthesis which explains the conversion of aryl hydrazones to indoles

WOHL ZIEGLER BROMINATION
Learn more on the Wohl Ziegler Bromination which is the bromination of allylic positions with N-bromosuccinimide (NBS).

SIMMONS SMITH REACTION
Know more on the Simmons Smith Reaction affording the cyclopropanation of olefins.

CLEMMENSEN REDUCTION
Discover the Clemmensen Reduction allowing the deoxygenation of aldehydes or ketones, to produce the corresponding hydrocarbon

SUZUKI CROSS COUPLING REACTION
Suzuki Cross coupling Reaction is a metal catalyzed reaction, typically with Pd, between an alkenyl (vinyl), aryl, or alkynyl organoborane (boronic acid or boronic ester, or special cases with aryl trifluoroborane) and halide or triflate under basic conditions.

FRIEDEL CRAFTS REACTION
Discover the Friedel–Crafts acylation which is the reaction of an arene with acyl chlorides or anhydrides using a strong Lewis acid catalyst.

BAEYER VILLIGER REACTION
Learn more the Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation is the oxidative cleavage of a carbon-carbon bond adjacent to a carbonyl, which converts ketones to esters and cyclic ketones to lactones

GRIGNARD REACTION
 
Know more on the Grignard Reaction which is the addition of an organo-magnesium halide (Grignard reagent) to a ketone or aldehyde, to form a tertiary or secondary alcohol, respectively

BECKMANN REARRANGEMENT REACTION
Discover the Beckmann rearrangement Reaction which is a reaction of oximes that can result in either amides or nitriles, depending on the starting material. (Oximes derived from ketones give amides; oximes derived from aldehydes provide nitriles)

DESS-MARTIN REACTION
 
Watch and know more on the Dess-Martin Periodinane (DMP), a hypervalent iodine compound, offering selective and very mild oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes or ketones.