This organized, annual serial provides a general review of structure/activity information for each synthetic compound discussed, clearly illustrates structures of compounds in every feasible synthetic pathway, and provides references to the primary literature for each reaction discussed.

The first three chapters of this latest volume, Annual Reports in Organic Synthesis (2003), are organised by reaction type. Later chapters deal with methods of synthesizing heterocyclic systems, the use of protecting groups and synthetically useful transformations. The final chapters deals with reviews and are divided by specific topics.

• Clearly organised review of synthetically useful information. Emphasize on rapid visual retrieval
• Extensive use of references
• Beneficial to nearly all organic chemists, both specialists and nonspecialists in...

This handy reference tool is an organized annual review of synthetically useful information. It abstracts synthetic reactions from the major chemistry journals of the past year and includes all reactions and methodsthat are new and reasonably general. The reactions are presented in a convenient pictorial format designed for rapid visual retrieval of information.

The Journal of the American Chemical Society has aptly described this publication as an"aid to the harassed organic chemist who cannot keep up with the never-diminishing stream of new primary literature"and hails...