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SourceI find this source usefulNumber of advocates
Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th Ed, Armarego and Perrin, 2000. 35
Organic Syntheses (serial with detailed experimental procedures, 1921 to present). 34
Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, Theodora Greene, ed.3, 1999 34
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Leo Paquette, ed., 8 vol. 1995. 32
March's Advanced Organic Chemistry, 5th ed. M. B. Smith and J. March. 24
"Substrate-directable chemical reactions," Hoveyda, Evans, and Fu, Chem. Rev. (1993) 1307-1370 16
Organic Reactions (review serial, 1942 to present). 12
Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Selectivity, Strategy, and Efficiency in Modern Organic Chemistry, Trost and Fleming, ed., 9 Vol. 1991. 11
Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis (serial about reagents) 1967-current. 10
Comprehensive Asymmetric Catalysis, Eric Jacobsen, ed. 3 Vol, 1999. 6
Carey and Sundberg's Organic Chemistry 4
Silverstien's Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds 3
Comprehensive Organic Transformations, A Guide To Functional Group Preparations, VCH Publishers, Inc., 1999, Richard Larock 1
Reagents for Organic Synthesis 1