Organic Synthesis

K. C. Nicolaou and E. J. Sorensen, Classics in Total Synthesis. Wiley-VCH, 1996. ISBN 3527292845.

Comprehensive Organic Synthesis: Selectivity, Strategy and Efficiency in Modern Organic Chemistry (1991).

Fieser and Fieser’s Reagents for Organic Synthesis.

Comprehensive Organic Functional Group Transformations (1995).

K. C. Nicolaou and T. Montagnon, Molecules That Changed the World. Wiley-VCH, 2008.

Suggested: K. C. Nicolaou, “The Art and Science of Organic Synthesis at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century,” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 39 (2000), pp. 44–122.

Assignment examples: Michael Smith, Organic Synthesis, chapter 14, sample synthesis proposals (first- or second-edition page references supplied in source).