The five reactions on every organic chemist’s wish list

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Every organic chemist has a list of reactions they wish they could perform to quickly and easily reach their end-product. While great strides have been made in some areas such as cross-coupling reaction, unfortunately many of the reactions chemists wish they could do remain infuriatingly out reach. Here we run-down the top five reactions that organic chemists wished existed.