Stuart Warren Explained

Stuart Warren
Birth Date:	24 December 1938
Nationality:	British
Workplaces:	University of Cambridge
Alma Mater:	Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral Advisor:	Malcolm Clark
Known For:	Organic Chemistry, University-level textbooks
Awards:	Bader Award (2002)

Stuart Warren (24 December 1938 – 22 March 2020)^[1] was a British organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.^{[2] [3]}

Academic career

Warren was educated at Cheadle Hulme School near Manchester and read the Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity College, Cambridge. He stayed at Cambridge to complete a PhD with Malcolm Clark, before moving to Harvard to do post-doctoral research with F. H. Westheimer. Dr Warren returned to Trinity as a research fellow and subsequently took up a post as a teaching fellow at Churchill College in 1971.^[4] He remained a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge until his retirement in 2006.^[5] He won the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2002.^[6] Following his death the RSC produced a themed collection of his work.^[7]

The Warren group

Warren's research group is renowned for having produced some of the most successful organic chemistry academics in the UK, including:^[1]

• Professor Nick Greeves (University of Liverpool)
• Professor Varinder Aggarwal, Professor Paul Wyatt (University of Bristol)
• Professor Jonathan Clayden (University of Bristol, formerly University of Manchester)
• Professor Peter O'Brien (University of York)
• Professor Adam Nelson (University of Leeds)
• Professor Kelly Chibale (University of Cape Town)
• Professor Iain Coldham (University of Sheffield)
• Professor Nikolai Kuhnert (Jacobs University Bremen)
• Dr. David Fox (University of Warwick)
• Dr. Lorenzo Caggiano (University of Bath)
• Professor Richard Hartley (University of Glasgow)
• Dr. Julian Knight (Newcastle University)
• Dr. Jason Eames (University of Hull)
• Dr. Daniel Sejer Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)
• Dr. Stephen Thomas (University of Edinburgh)

Textbook authorship

Warren is well known for his university-level textbooks Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group (1974),^[8] Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach (1978),^[9] Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (first edition 1982,^[10] second edition 2008^[11]), and its graduate-level sequel, Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2007).^[12] He is perhaps best known as one of the authors of the best-selling undergraduate text Organic Chemistry (first edition 2000, second edition 2012^[13]), which he wrote with his former students Jonathan Clayden and Nick Greeves, and fellow Cambridge lecturer Peter Wothers.

External links

• Stuart Warren's Cambridge staff profile

Notes and References

1. Stuart Warren (24 Dec 1938–22 Mar 2020) . Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry . 2020 . 37 . 10.1039/D0OB90121K . 30 March 2021 . In memory of Stuart Warren. Aggarwal . Varinder K. . Armstrong . Susan K. . Caggiano . Lorenzo . Chibale . Kelly . Clayden . Jonathan . Coldham . Iain . Greeves . Nicholas . Hartley . Richard C. . Knight . Julian G. . Kuhnert . Nikolai . Mitchell . Helen J. . Nelson . Adam . O'Brien . Peter . Thomas . Stephen P. . Wyatt . Paul . 18 . 7236–7237 . 32936190 . 221747307 .
2. Web site: Natural Sciences: At the chalk face . . 14 May 2010 .
3. Web site: A sad farewell to Dr Stuart Warren . . 23 March 2020 .
4. Web site: Master, Fellows and Subjects 2009/10 . . 14 May 2010 .
5. Web site: Stuart Warren Retirement Conference . . 14 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080925174410/http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/orgold.html . 25 September 2008 .
6. Web site: Bader Award Previous Winners . The Royal Society of Chemistry . 11 September 2018.
7. Web site: In memory of Stuart Warren Home . pubs.rsc.org . 28 February 2022 . en.
8. Book: Warren, Stuart . Stuart Warren

   . Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group: A Programmed Approach to Organic Reaction Mechanisms . Stuart Warren . 1974 . 978-0-471-92104-2 .

9. Book: Warren, Stuart . Stuart Warren

   . Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach . 1978 . Stuart Warren . 978-0-471-99612-5 .

10. Book: Stuart Warren

    . Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach . registration . Stuart . Warren . Stuart Warren . 1st . 1982 . 978-0-471-10161-1 .

11. Book: Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach . Stuart . Warren . Stuart Warren . Paul . Wyatt . 2nd . 2008 . 978-0-470-71236-8 .
12. Book: Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control . Stuart . Warren . Stuart Warren . Paul . Wyatt . 2nd . 2007 . 978-0-471-92963-5 .
13. Web site: The Sceptical Chymist: The Nature Chemistry blog. Reactions - Stuart Warren .