Biography:Stuart Warren

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Short description: British organic chemist (1938–2020)
Stuart Warren
Born(1938-12-24)24 December 1938
Died22 March 2020(2020-03-22) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forOrganic Chemistry, University-level textbooks
AwardsBader Award (2002)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Doctoral advisorMalcolm Clark

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]

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,[13] second edition 2012[14]), which he wrote with his former students Jonathan Clayden and Nick Greeves, and fellow Cambridge lecturer Peter Wothers.

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Aggarwal, Varinder K.; Armstrong, Susan K.; Caggiano, Lorenzo; Chibale, Kelly; Clayden, Jonathan; Coldham, Iain; Greeves, Nicholas; Hartley, Richard C. et al. (2020). "Stuart Warren (24 Dec 1938–22 Mar 2020)". Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 18 (37): 7236–7237. doi:10.1039/D0OB90121K. PMID 32936190. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ob/d0ob90121k. Retrieved 30 March 2021. "In memory of Stuart Warren". 
  2. "Natural Sciences: At the chalk face". Churchill College, Cambridge. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduates/applying/courses/natural_sciences/chalk_face.php. Retrieved 14 May 2010. 
  3. "A sad farewell to Dr Stuart Warren". Cambridge University. https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/sad-farewell-dr-stuart-warren. Retrieved 23 March 2020. 
  4. "Master, Fellows and Subjects 2009/10". Churchill College, Cambridge. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/fellows/fellows.php. Retrieved 14 May 2010. 
  5. "Stuart Warren Retirement Conference". Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/orgold.html. 
  6. "Bader Award Previous Winners". http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/BaderAward/PreviousWinners.asp. 
  7. "In memory of Stuart Warren Home" (in en). https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=p1&themeid=c3ba3ca8-960e-4889-bfda-e5a8dad6e497. 
  8. Warren, Stuart (1974). Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group: A Programmed Approach to Organic Reaction Mechanisms. ISBN 978-0-471-92104-2. 
  9. Warren, Stuart (1978). Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach. ISBN 978-0-471-99612-5. 
  10. Warren, Stuart (1982). Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (1st ed.). ISBN 978-0-471-10161-1. https://archive.org/details/organicsynthesis0000warr_a1q3. 
  11. Warren, Stuart; Wyatt, Paul (2008). Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-0-470-71236-8. 
  12. Warren, Stuart; Wyatt, Paul (2007). Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-0-471-92963-5. 
  13. Clayden, Jonathan; Greeves, Nick; Warren, Stuart; Wothers, Peter (2001). Organic Chemistry (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850346-0. 
  14. "The Sceptical Chymist: The Nature Chemistry blog. Reactions - Stuart Warren". http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2009/11/reactions_stuart_warren.html.