Textbooks

Advanced Organic Chemistry, Part B, 4th ed. (Carey/Sundberg; Plenum, 2001) - readable summary, great leading refs.
Advanced Organic Chemistry, 5th ed. (Smith/March; Wiley, 2001) - summary/encyclopedia of reactions, >2000 refs.
Art in Organic Synthesis, 2nd ed. (Anand/Bitra/Randanathan; Wiley, 1988) - discussions of classic syntheses
Classic in Total Synthesis (Nicolaou/Sorenson; VCH, 1996) - insightful, expert discussion of great total syntheses
Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods (var. Eds.; Wiley) - 10 vol. set with easy tabular indices.
Comprehensive Organic Transformations (Larock) - index is an acquired skill, but leading refereces are very numerous
Concepts of Organic Synthesis - Carbocyclic Chemistry (Mundy; Dekker, 1979) - dated, but a very nice overview
Evolution of Synthetic Pathways - Parallax and Calibration (Ho; World Sci., 1996) - analysis of total syntheses; chapters are Chemoselectivity Problems, Stereochemical Problems, and Regiochemical Problems.  Assumes much synthesis knowledge.
The Logic of Chemical Synthesis (Corey/Cheng) - great discussion of strategy by one of the true masters
Name Reactions and Reagents in Organic Synthesis (Mundy/Ellerd; Wiley, 1988) - nice discussions with examples
The Organic Chemistry of Drug Synthesis (var. Eds.; Wiley) - six vol. set; some very useful transformations
Organic Synthesis - The Disconnection Approach (Warren; Wiley, 1982) - a little old, but excellent for learning retrosynthetic analysis
Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis, 3rd Ed. (Greene/Wuts; Wiley, 1999) - the best compilation around
Strategies for Organic Drug Synthesis and Design (Lednicer; Wiley, 1998) - arranged by compound type
Tactics of Organic Synthesis (Ho; Wiley, 1994) - excellent discussion of reaction types and their utility; upper level
The Total Synthesis of Natural Products (J. ApSimon, Ed.) - 11vol. set; each vol. has 1-4 chapters on N.P. families [Tables of Contents]


Monograph Series

Organic Syntheses - nearly 80-vol. series of tested syntheses - available on-line
Organic Reactions - 61-vol. collection of super reviews covering name rxns., rxn. types, catalysis, etc. - indexed on-line - database coming in Nov. 2002
Fiesers' Reagents for Organic Synthesis - 20-vol set with entries for virtually every reagent ever reported - on-line database coming in Dec. 2002
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis (L. Paquette, Ed.) - nine-vol. index of mini-reviews - searchable on-line by text, reaction, catalyst, even substructure.


On-Line Resources

Acronym Database- from I.U., it's informative and fun.
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry - links to journals, web links, etc.
Basic/Advanced Concepts in NMR  from Queen's College in Ontario - very nicely implemented, easy to follow
Beginner's Guide to Organic Synthesis - very nice intro to the strategy of synthetic planning.

Chemistry Journals & other Publications - the definitive list, all linked to homepages.
Classic (Name) Organic Reactions - 200 classic organic name reactions; each entry has the basic reaction with several references.
Dissertation Abstracts  Ph.D. theses from N. America and Europe since 1861 - more useful than you might think!

Lancaster Synthesis Organic Chemistry Sites - from the chemical co. - a wonderful, very large collection of links under 12 headings; these include Reaction Types, Synthetic Methods, Functional Groups, Mechanism, etc.
Links for Organic Chemists - from the huge Liverpool site - 60 links to a great variety of sites and link collections.
Named Organic Reactions Collection   from Oxford - 300 reactions and still growing - very complete data for each.NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO PUBLIC

Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry   from Holger Frauenrath, a promising young German chemist now at ETH (Zurich).
Named Reactions in Organic Chemistry -  From U. of Conn., currently 95 rxns., each one linked to very nice information page.

Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry - a partially finished work in progress from the Institute of Chemistry in Macedonia.  HUGE number of name reactions.
Organic Chemistry Forum - sponsored by ChemWeb - all kinds of useful information, links, even access to Tetrahedron Lett.!
Organic Chemistry Resources Worldwide - "An intuitive WWW resource guide for synthetic organic chemists".  An incredibly comprehensive site with seven sections, including Literature, Laboratory, Desk, etc.
The Organometallic HyperTextBook Index - a very complete resource for OM chemistry, with links to concepts as well as reactions.
Organometallic Mechanisms & Homogeneous Catalysis - online lectures, tutorials, other info.  Very complete.

Sources for the Synthesis or Reactions of Compounds - from Indiana Univ.'s super ChemInfo site.  Really nice; even includes call numbers for those of us at schools which still file journals that way (like EIU).
WebReactions - a reaction search retrieval system - takes a little learning, but is very useful

Important Review Articles

The Art and Science of Total Synthesis at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century - A beautiful, exciting, inspiring review and discussion by Prof. K.C. Nicolaou (Scripps), one of the best synthetic chemists alive.  Actually an 80-page article in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. (2000, 39, 44-122), it features wonderful graphics and 455 references.  Must be perused to be appreciated.

Asymmetric [4+2] Cycloaddiitons Mediated by Sulfoxides - long overdue review on an important aspect of asymmeric synthesis.

The Chemistry of the Antibody Molecule - enzymatic catalysis, synthesis of new catalysts, immunochemistry

The CP Molecule Labyrinth - A Paradigm of How Endeavors in Total Synthesis Lead to Discoveries and Inventions in Organic Synthesis.

Diels-Alder Reaction in Action - another beautiful K.C. Nicolaou review.

Domino Reactions in Organic Synthesis - one of the most efficient methods for molecular construction.

Interactions with Aromatic Rings in Chemical and Biological Regognition - noncovalent interactions between aromatics and other biomolecules

Lactone Concept: An Efficient Pathway to Axially Chiral NPs and Reagents - use of lactones as chiral templates.

Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions of Aryl Chlorides - excellent review by Prof. Greg Fu (MIT) covering the multitude of cross-coupling reactions which are used so often - Suzuki, Stille, Hiyama, Negishi, Kumada, Sonogashira, Heck, and many others.  347 references.

Total Synthesis of Bioactive Marine Terpenoids - Yamada's great summary of his syntheses of a diversity of marine NPs


Journals

Chemistry Journals via Booth Library - really excellent selection; only the Tetrahedron trio is conspicuously absent.
Journal Titles and Abbreviations - gives the full name for all chemistry journal abbreviations.
Online-Only Journals Monitored by CAS - just what it says.  A few of interest to organikers.
MedLine Journals and Abbreviations   very useful list of all PubMed journals that provide links to full text articles; also lists the databases that include the journal (e.g., Ingenta, Ovid, EBSCO, InfoTrieve, HighWire, etc. as well as publishers).
 

Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names - great comic relief!