Stuart Warren

Stuart Warren was a British organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students.

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 under Malcolm Clark, before moving to Harvard to carry out post-doctoral research with F. H. Westheimer. Dr. Warren returned to Trinity as a research fellow, and in 1971 took up a post as a teaching fellowship at Churchill College. He remained a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge until his retirement in 2006. He won the Royal Society of Chemistry Bader Award in 2002. Following his death the RSC produced a themed collection of his work.

The Warren group

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

Professor Nick Greeves
Professor Varinder Aggarwal, Professor Paul Wyatt
Professor Jonathan Clayden
Professor Peter O'Brien
Professor Adam Nelson
Professor Kelly Chibale
Professor Iain Coldham
Professor Nikolai Kuhnert
Dr. David Fox
Dr. Lorenzo Caggiano
Professor Richard Hartley
Dr. Julian Knight
Dr. Jason Eames
Dr. Daniel Sejer Pedersen
Dr. Stephen Thomas

Textbook authorship

Warren is well known for his university-level textbooks Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group, Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach, Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, and its graduate-level sequel, Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control. He is perhaps best known as one of the authors of the best-selling undergraduate text Organic Chemistry, which he wrote with his former students Jonathan Clayden and Nick Greeves, and fellow Cambridge lecturer Peter Wothers.