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