• Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry, section B (Organic)

• Chemical Reviews

• Chemical Society reviews

• Specialist Periodical Reports

• Uspekhii Khimii (Russian Chemical Reviews)

Book series and encyclopedia

Patents

Patents are an excellent source for a review of prior art.

Databases

• Synthesis Reviews

  A database of about 19,500 English review articles and books of interest to synthetic organic chemists, published between 1970 and 2005.

WWW sources

• Reaction Index: Name Reactions in Organic Chemistry

  A list of name reactions, linked to a graphical abstract and the bibliography with the original reference

• Index to scientific reviews (semi-annually, 1974-, ISI)

  Provides complete bibliographic data on the world's most recently published reviews and review-type articles. Indexes over 64,000 items each year, providing full coverage of over 200 review serials plus coverage of related material from over 2,600 primary research journals.

• Chemical abstracts

  Review articles are indicated with capital R between volume and abstract number (e.g. 92:R12467g).
  For the printed editions, look under the index heading "review" in the weekly keyword index. When searching CD-ROM or on-line: combine your term with review or review/DT (e.g. s pyridines and review)

• Science citation index

  In the printed edition is a review designated by R on the same line as the journal abbreviation.

• Current Contents

• Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. - Index to Review Articles, v.41, supplement 1 (March 2002) [Electronic version]

  Provides both an Author and Keyword Subject index to Review Articles, published from 1962 to 2001

• Journal of Organic Chemistry (1978-1985, 1990- )

  Lists a few times a year virtually all review articles and monographs in organic chemistry. Each list includes a subject index.

• Review section in Current Chemical Reactions

  Compilation of new reviews grouped by journals in which they appear.

• Literature of heterocyclic chemistry:

  - Belen'kii, Adv. Heterocycl. Chem. 44, 269-396, 1988
  - Karitzky and Jones, Adv. Heterocycl. Chem. 25, 303-391, 1979.
  - Katritsky and Weeds, Adv. Heterocycl. Chem. 7, 225-299, 1966.
  

• Literature of organometallic chemistry:

  - Smith and Walton, Adv. Organomet. Chem. 13, 453-558, 1975.
  - Bruce, Adv. Organomet. Chem. 10, 273-346, 1972; 11, 447-471 1973; 12, 380-407, 1974.