Applications
This type of reaction is used as a basis for the making of many important polymers, for example: nylon, polyester, and other condensation polymers and various epoxies. It is also the basis for the laboratory formation of silicates and polyphosphates. The reactions that form acid anhydrides from their constituent acids are typically condensation reactions.
Many biological transformations are condensation reactions. Polypeptide synthesis, polyketide synthesis, terpene syntheses, phosphorylation, and glycosylations are a few examples of this reaction.
A large number of such reactions are used in synthetic organic chemistry. Other examples include:
- Acyloin condensation
- Aldol condensation
- Benzoin condensation (this is not technically a condensation, but is called so for historical reasons)
- Claisen condensation
- Claisen-Schmidt condensation
- Darzens condensation (glycidic ester condensation)
- Dieckmann condensation
- Guareschi-Thorpe condensation
- Knoevenagel condensation
- Michael condensation
- Pechmann condensation
- Rap-Stoermer condensation
- Self-condensation or symmetrical aldol condensation
- Ziegler condensation
See named reactions
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