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September 28, 2006 - Beginning with Volume 84, pdf versions of Organic Syntheses articles will now be published online immediately upon completion of checking and editing ("OS ASAP").

August 26, 2005 - Beginning with Volume 81, NMR spectra of products can be viewed for all procedures and downloaded as pdf files. The links to NMR spectra are found in the Notes section of each procedure.

July 11, 2005 - Pdf versions of all procedures are now available for all of Organic Syntheses and can be accessed via the contents pages of both annual and collective volumes.

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Since 1921, Organic Syntheses has provided the chemistry community with annual collections of detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures describe practical methods for the preparation of specific compounds of interest, while other procedures illustrate important synthetic methods with general utility. Each procedure is written in considerably more detail as compared to typical experimental procedures in other journals, and each reaction and all characterization data has been carefully "checked" for reproducibility in the laboratory of a member of the Board of Editors.

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Rick L. Danheiser, Editor in Chief
Kay M. Brummond
Scott E. Denmark
Jonathan A. Ellman
Mark Lautens
David J. Mathre
  Andreas Pfaltz
John A. Ragan
Viresh H. Rawal
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Peter Wipf
Charles K. Zercher, Associate Editor
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