| Textbook
| Used when I need to find
| I find this textbook useful
| Number of advocates
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| Greene and Wuts, Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, 3rd ed.
| protecting groups
| | 142
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| Armarego and Perrin, Purification of Laboratory Chemicals, 4th ed.
| purification of solvents and reagents
| | 109
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| Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers - Organic Chemistry
| Fairly comprehensive chemistry textbook
| | 103
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| Silverstein and Webster, Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds, 6th ed.
| NMR, IR, MS, UV-Vis
| | 85
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| Aldrich Catalog
| Compund properties, structures
| | 77
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| Kurti & Czako, Strategic Applications of Named Reactions in Organic Synthesis Highly
| recommended: Named reactions (x 200) incl. ref's to primary literature, modifications, improvements, mechanisms, conditions, examples of use in synthesis
| | 74
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| March, Smith
| Advanced Organic Chemistry 5th Ed
| | 61
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| Grossman, The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms
| Great book for upper level undergrad, beginning grad mechanism class. Very well written, logically organized, lots of problems with solutions on th web.
| | 59
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| Vogel, Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry
| Useful for all manner of laboratory procedures and apparatus. Especially good for the more well developed chemistry.
| | 56
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| ACS Style Guide
| Everything you need for writing papers i.e. reference, tables, figures, punctionation, abbreviations etc...Very Cheap!
| | 44
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| Warren, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach
| Good for upper level UG and 1st and2nd year Grad students for retrosynthesis of natural products
| | 43
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| Larock, Comprehensive Organic Transformation, 2nd ed.
| Functional group transformations
| | 42
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| Advanced organic chemistry, Jerry March
| book with exhaustive references
| | 41
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| Kocienski, Protecting Groups
| general info about protecting groups not as comprehensive as Greene, but easier to read. Includes NMR data, mechanisms of formation and cleavage.
| | 35
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| The Merck Index, 12th ed.
| Stuctures of organic compounds, name reactions
| | 30
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| Eliel, Stereochemistry of Organic Compounds
| All issues related to the preparation, isolation and identification of optically active molecules
| | 26
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| Pretsch, Affolter, and Buehlmann, Structure Determination of Organic Compounds
| NMR, IR, MS, UV-Vis
| | 18
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| Tietze and Eicher, Reactions and Synthesis in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory
| Good conditions for standard organic reactions. Is a translation on an undergraduate laboratory text from Germany. First rate, great indices.
| | 18
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| Gordon and Ford, The Chemist's Companion, 1972
| All sort of useful data
| | 17
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| Corey and Cheng, The Logic of Chemical Synthesis, 1989
| references for natural product syntheses
| | 16
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| Schlosser, Organometallics in Synthesis
| procedures for virtually any type of reaction involving organometallic intermediates
| | 12
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| Ojima, Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis
| Chiral ligands
| | 11
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| P. White, B. Dorner, R. Steinauer - NovaBiochem Catalog Synthesis notes
| Practical tips on solid phase synthesis (especially peptide synthesis)
| | 9
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| Lancaster catalogue (a chemical supply company)
| Compound properties. Has useful short reviews for many reagents
| | 9
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| Turro, Ramamurthy, and Scaiano, Modern Molecular Photochemistry
| Information about organic photochemistry and excited state chemistry
| | 8
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| Harmata, ed., Strategies and Tactics in Organic Synthesis
| Personal accounts from numerous research groups discussing total synthesis projects. Includes many nonpublished results and personal anecdotes
| | 8
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| Strunk and White, The Elements of Style
| The right way to use particular words and phrases
| | 8
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| AlfaAesar Catalog
| Properties, structures, examples of application with citations
| | 8
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| Strem Catalog
| metal catalysts for organic synthesis, examples with citations
| | 6
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