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title: "Common organic reagents Template | MolDraw"
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description: "Common organic reagents template: Oxidants, reductants, bases, coupling and protecting-group reagents: mCPBA, NBS, DCC, Boc₂O, DMAP, DBU. Preview it, then…"
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# Common organic reagents template

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Oxidants, reductants, bases, coupling and protecting-group reagents: mCPBA, NBS, DCC, Boc₂O, DMAP, DBU...

## What the template shows

- Structures behind the abbreviations, grouped by what they do
- Oxidants and halogenating agents
- allylic bromination
- Dess–Martin
- DMP · alcohol → C=O
- Oxalyl chloride
- Swern, acid chlorides
- Bases and nucleophilic catalysts
- Hünig base
- acylation catalyst
- amidine base
- Coupling and activation
- amide / ester coupling
- water-soluble carbodiimide
- coupling additive
- carbonyl transfer
- PPh₃ · Wittig, Mitsunobu
- Protecting-group reagents
- Boc on amines
- silyl ethers
- Benzyl bromide
- BnBr · benzyl ethers
- Acetic anhydride

Drawn with 218 atoms, 4 shapes – every one editable in MolDraw.

## Sources

- [Furniss et al., Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, 5th ed., Longman 1989](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780582462366) Textbook
- [Clayden, Greeves & Warren, Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., OUP 2012](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780199270293) Textbook
- [Kürti & Czakó, Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis, Elsevier 2005](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780124297852) Textbook

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### Is the Common organic reagents template free?

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### Can I edit the Common organic reagents template?

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### Is the chemistry checked?

Every structure is checked with RDKit and every curly arrow passes MolDraw’s electron-flow audit. The sources used are listed on this page.

### What is on the lab colour chart?

The colours of common precipitates, flame tests and indicators, as used in qualitative analysis.

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