Stuart Warren
Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 – 22 March 2020) was a British organic chemist and a well-known author of university chemistry textbooks. He studied at Cheadle Hulme School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he completed his Natural Sciences Tripos and earned a PhD under Malcolm Clark. He did postdoctoral research with F. H. Westheimer at Harvard before returning to Cambridge as a research fellow. In 1971 he became a teaching fellow at Churchill College and spent his career as a lecturer and researcher in the Cambridge Chemistry Department until retiring in 2006.
Warren won the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2002. After his death, the RSC published a themed collection of his work. His research group helped train many successful organic chemists in the UK.
He wrote several influential textbooks, including Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group (1974), Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach (1978), Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (1982; 2008), and Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2007). He is best known for the undergraduate text Organic Chemistry (first edition 2000; second edition 2012), co-authored with his former students Jonathan Clayden and Nick Greeves and fellow Cambridge lecturer Peter Wothers.
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