ReactionFlash

4.7
1.21K reviews
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About this app

Want to refresh your memory on named chemical reactions before an exam or a group meeting? The free ReactionFlash(R) app is a great way to learn named reactions, understand their mechanisms and view examples published in peer-reviewed literature or patents.

Designed and developed in consultation with Professor Dr. Erick M. Carreira of ETH Zürich, the app now covers over 1'200 named chemistry reactions. Professor Carreira has helped ensure that we have all the fundamental reactions that should be part of every chemist’s toolkit: from the best-known ones to the ones only Nobel Prize winners remember!

The app is designed like a set of flash cards so it can be used as a learning tool as well as a reference. Each ‘card’ shows the reaction, its mechanism and examples from peer-reviewed, published literature. It also has a quiz mode that lets you test your knowledge.

Linking into Reaxys enables you to find the most recent examples of each reaction, many with experimental details. Reaxys delivers experimental facts from the literature, enabling researchers to find the best synthetic routes and conditions. Find out more at https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/reaxys

Download the app now and see if you know all the named reactions!

Summary:
- Learn named reactions
- Review and understand mechanisms
- Explore examples published in peer-reviewed literature
- Take the ReactionFlash quiz and see how much you know

If you need support, please contact us at reactionflash@elsevier.com.

Reaxys and ReactionFlash are trade marks of Elsevier Ltd., used under license.
(c) 2024 Elsevier Ltd.

For tips and tricks as well as for known issues please see:
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/reaxys/higher-education/teaching-chemistry/reactionflash#tipsandtricks
Updated on
Mar 4, 2024

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Ratings and reviews

4.6
1.17K reviews
Jarhead
December 27, 2021
Works gr8 on my old Note 8. Only problem is no exit button. The back function doesn't work either. There's a lot of apps that leave that off until enuff people complain. I'm just an old-school guy. Had to go into the inconvenient & in my humble opinion the inefficient multi-window screen in order to exit out. Didn't see any ads. Therefore 5☆'s on the "r8 ur experience for ads shown inside the app."
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Elsevier Limited
December 27, 2021
Hello Doug, Thank you very much for your rating and for your comment. Our team very much appreciates it. We tried to be backwards compatible as much as we could. The multi-window approach is quite common in the apps these days and the navigation would add quite some complexity. We wanted to keep the app as simple as possible. All the best Pieder
A Google user
June 12, 2019
Awesome App to quickly look up a reaction. Although, on thing is annoying: Clicking a reaction rotates the screen to landscape and if you're not very careful your gyrometer rotates it right back, going back out into the menu. Edit(since i cant reply): I have read your response (same as to other replies). That would be fine, if the menu was in landscape. But it is not... So it flip flops around. It's not a user error.
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Elsevier Limited
June 14, 2019
Hello Gregor Any chance to send me a message to reactionflash@elsevier.com to allow me to understand the issue you experience. I am very sorry that you have difficulties with ReactionFlash. Best Pieder
Cat
September 23, 2020
This app has nice features, however as mentioned in other reviews the orientation is unstable rendering it unusable. It swaps between landscape and portrait mode and when turned to accomodate the new screen orientation it interferes with what the app is doing eg. In quiz mode it switches to landscape if you rotate phone it pauses the quiz and returns to portrait orientation. It is severe enough that i cannot use the app, this can't be corrected by disabling landscape reactions in the settings.
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Elsevier Limited
February 6, 2021
Hello Catherine We just released ReactionFlash Version 3.0 where we fixed the auto-rotation issue. You now can use all functionalities in portrait or in landscape mode. We also updated content and we added the possibility for you to create your own Sets (aka Playlists). Thank you much for reconsidering your rating. Have an excellent day Pieder

What's new

We again added over 40 new Named Reactions bringing the total to over 1’250 Named Reactions - to our knowledge, by far the largest collection of Named Reactions.
We also corrected most of the known content and application issues. Wishing great success with ReactionFlash.