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OrgSyn was/is the absolute gold standard, and partly why I ended up quitting academic organic chemistry. A key metric in organic chemistry is yield, ie. how much of A turns into B. Top journals generally required 15+ examples of yield >85-90% for a new reaction (unless it was really novel). Reference that 90%+ figure against the typical OrgSyn yield and you'll be wondering what a stressed out PhD with limited analytic support knows that a team of real process chemists doesn't.

Process chemistry is not a glamourous field, so people submit their results for at least some recognition and the journal editors replicate the procedures in their own labs independently. Their stipulation is that the single most expensive reagent cannot be more than $500.