伯奇还原反应（Birch还原）是指用钠和醇在液氨中将芳香环还原成1,4-环己二烯的有机还原反应。此反应最早由澳大利亚化学家Arthur John Birch (1915–1995)在1944年发表。 Birch还原的重要性在于：尽管剩下的双键（非芳香性）更为活泼，该反应却能停留在环己双烯上，而不继续还原。

反应中的钠也可以用锂或钾取代，使用的醇通常是甲醇或叔丁醇。

使用Birch还原的一个例子是还原萘：

其他人也发表了很多篇关于此反应的综述。

The Birch reduction is an organic reaction which is particularly useful in synthetic organic chemistry. The reaction was reported in 1944 by the Australian chemist Arthur Birch (1915–1995) working in the Dyson Perrins Laboratory in the University of Oxford, building on earlier work by Wooster and Godfrey in 1937. It converts aromatic compounds having a benzenoid ring into a product, 1,4-cyclohexadienes, in which two hydrogen atoms have been attached on opposite ends of the molecule. It is the organic reduction of aromatic rings in liquid ammonia with sodium, lithium or potassium and an alcohol, such as ethanol and tert-butanol. This reaction is quite unlike catalytic hydrogenation, which usually reduces the aromatic ring all the way to a cyclohexane.