Ac                              acetyl                                   
   Ar                              aryl                                     
   Bn or Bzl                       benzyl                                   
   Bu or n-Bu                      normal (primary) butyl                   
   s-Bu                            sec-butyl                                
   t-Bu                            tert-butyl                               
   Bz                              benzoyl (not benzyl)                     
   Et                              ethyl                                    
   Me                              methyl                                   
   Ph                              phenyl                                   
   Pr                              propyl                                   
   i-Pr                            isopropyl                                

   

   aq                     aqueous                                                                 
   d                     chemical shift in parts per million downfield from tetramethylsilane     
   DMF                   dimethylformamide                                                        
   DMSO                  dimethyl sulfoxide                                                       
   E1                    unimolecular elimination                                                 
   E2                    bimolecular elimination                                                  
   HOMO                  highest occupied molecular orbital                                       
   HPLC                  high-performance liquid chromatography                                   
   HRMS                  high-resolution mass spectrometry                                        
   IR                    infrared                                                                 
   J                     coupling constant (in NMR spectrometry)                                  
   K                     kelvin(s) (absolute temperature)                                         
   LAH                   lithium aluminum hydride                                                 
   LDA                   lithium diisopropylamide;                                                
   LUMO                  lowest unoccupied molecular orbital                                      
   mol                   mol                                                                      
   MS                    mass spectrometry                                                        
   MW or mol wt          molecular weight                                                         
   NBS                   N-bromosuccinimide                                                       
   NMR                   nuclear magnetic resonance                                               
   Nu                    nucleophile                                                              
   rt                    room temperature                                                         
   redox                 reduction-oxidation                                                      
   R[f]                  retention factor (in chromatography)                                     
   s                     singlet (spectral)                                                       
   S[N]1                 unimolecular nucleophilic substitution                                   
   S[N]2                 bimolecular nucleophilic substitution                                    
   t                     triplet (spectral)                                                       
   THF                   tetrahydrofuran                                                          
   TLC                   thin-layer chromatography                                                
   TMS                   trimethylsilyl; tetramethylsilane                                        
   t[R]                  retention time (in chromatography)                                       
   UV                    ultraviolet                                                              
   vis                   visible