The Tour of Collective Wisdom presents:
Desert Island Reviews and Reference Books


In case you're stranded on a desert island and need to do chemistry.


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SourceI find this source usefulNumber of advocates
Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th Ed, Armarego and Perrin, 2000. 95
Organic Syntheses (serial with detailed experimental procedures, 1921 to present). 85
Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, Theodora Greene, ed.3, 1999 82
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 5th ed. M. B. Smith and J. March. 62
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Leo Paquette, ed., 8 vol. 1995. 59
Carey and Sundberg's Organic Chemistry 35
Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis (serial about reagents) 1967-current. 33
Vogel's textbook of practical organic chemistry, 5th edition 32
Organic Reactions (review serial, 1942 to present). 23
"Substrate-directable chemical reactions," Hoveyda, Evans, and Fu, Chem. Rev. (1993) 1307-1370 20
Silverstien's Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds 19
Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Selectivity, Strategy, and Efficiency in Modern Organic Chemistry, Trost and Fleming, ed., 9 Vol. 1991. 14
Comprehensive Organic Transformations, A Guide To Functional Group Preparations, VCH Publishers, Inc., 1999, Richard Larock 14
The Merck Index 12
The Chemist's Companion: A Handbook of Practical Data, Techniques, and References Arnold J. Gordon (Author) Richard A. Ford (Author) 8
Reagents for Organic Synthesis 7
Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis, Eric Jacobsen, ed. 3 Vol, 1999. 6
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