By Max Wolf
Answer: AMBER BEER

The puzzle provides a list of chemical reactions which add or remove a functional group from a molecule. The key to the solution is figuring out what functional group gets added or removed and then making the same change to the appropriate reactant word.

The descriptions of the reactions suggest that an extra element needs to be added in order to complete the change from the reactant to the product words. These additional elements from the periodic table are shown on the left and spell CALL IN AMBER BEER when read in the reaction order.

Additional Element Reactants Reactions Products
C ONI
Japanese troll monster
+HBr
Hydrobromination
BRONCHI
Branching lung structures
Al GOON
Hired mob thug
-NO
Denytrosylation
GOAL
Unit of scoring in soccer
Li EMO
Sad teenage phase
+SNa
Herz Reaction
SEMOLINA
Durum wheat middlings
N PROCHOICE
Abortion Stance
-COOH
Decarboxylation
PRINCE
Son of a monarch
Am SCOOP
Serving of frozen dessert
-OO
Dexoxygenation
SCAMP
Impish rascal
B SPILL
Disaster with a liquid
+NOO
Nitration
SPOONBILL
Long-legged bird akin to an ibis
Er CIS
Molecular structure with two R groups on the same plane relative to a molecular bond
+HH
Hydrogenation
CHERISH
To hold dear
Be MIR
First modular space station
+CO
Carbonylation
MICROBE
Tiny creature unseen with the naked eye
Er PINE
long-needled conifer
+O
Epoxidation
PIONEER
Explorer or frontiersman, for example