For hydrocarbon fuels, detailed chemical kinetics typically involve a large number of chemical species and reactions. In a high-fidelity combustion calculation, it is essential, though challenging, to incorporate sufficiently detailed chemical kinetics to enable reliable predictions of thermo-chemical quantities, especially for pollutants such as NO x and CO. In this paper, we review the recent work on efficient implementation of chemistry at Cornell, specifically: the invariant constrained equilibriumedge pre-image curve dimension-reduction method for the reduced description of reactive flows; the transport-chemistry coupling in the reduced description; the computationally efficient operator-splitting schemes for reactive flows; and, recent developments in the storage/retrieval algorithm in situ adaptive tabulation.