methylenation

In organic chemistry, methylenation is a chemical reaction that inserts a methylene () group into a chemical compound:

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Methods
Methylene Insertion into Alkanes
Methylene-for-oxo reactions
Methylenation adjacent to carbonyl groups
Other approaches
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In organic chemistry, methylenation is a chemical reaction that inserts a methylene () group into a chemical compound: \ce{A-B} \longrightarrow \ce{A}{\color{red}\ce{-CH2 -}}\ce{B}

In a related sense, it also describes a process in which a divalent group of a starting material is removed and replaced with a terminal CH2 group: \ce{A=E} \longrightarrow \ce{A}{\color{red}\ce{=CH2}}