Carbohydrate chemistry is a large and economically important branch of organic chemistry. Some of the main organic reactions that involve carbohydrates are:
* Amadori rearrangement
* Carbohydrate acetalisation
* Carbohydrate digestion
* Cyanohydrin reaction
* Koenigs–Knorr reaction
* Lobry de Bruyn–Van Ekenstein transformation
* Nef reaction
* Wohl degradation