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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.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:⁸

• 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),⁹ Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach (1978),¹⁰ Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (first edition 1982,¹¹ second edition 2008¹²), and its graduate-level sequel, Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2007).¹³ He is perhaps best known as one of the authors of the best-selling undergraduate text Organic Chemistry (first edition 2000,¹⁴ second edition 2012¹⁵), 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

References

1. 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 (2020). "Stuart Warren (24 Dec 1938–22 Mar 2020)". Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18 (37): 7236–7237. doi:10.1039/D0OB90121K. PMID 32936190. S2CID 221747307. Retrieved 30 March 2021. In memory of Stuart Warren https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ob/d0ob90121k ↩

2. "Natural Sciences: At the chalk face". Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 May 2010. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduates/applying/courses/natural_sciences/chalk_face.php ↩

3. "A sad farewell to Dr Stuart Warren". Cambridge University. Retrieved 23 March 2020. https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/news/sad-farewell-dr-stuart-warren ↩

4. "Master, Fellows and Subjects 2009/10". Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 14 May 2010. http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/fellows/fellows.php ↩

5. "Stuart Warren Retirement Conference". Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20080925174410/http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/orgold.html ↩

6. "Bader Award Previous Winners". The Royal Society of Chemistry. Retrieved 11 September 2018. http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Awards/BaderAward/PreviousWinners.asp ↩

7. "In memory of Stuart Warren Home". pubs.rsc.org. Retrieved 28 February 2022. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=p1&themeid=c3ba3ca8-960e-4889-bfda-e5a8dad6e497 ↩

8. 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 (2020). "Stuart Warren (24 Dec 1938–22 Mar 2020)". Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18 (37): 7236–7237. doi:10.1039/D0OB90121K. PMID 32936190. S2CID 221747307. Retrieved 30 March 2021. In memory of Stuart Warren https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ob/d0ob90121k ↩

9. Warren, Stuart (1974). Chemistry of the Carbonyl Group: A Programmed Approach to Organic Reaction Mechanisms. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-92104-2. 978-0-471-92104-2 ↩

10. Warren, Stuart (1978). Designing Organic Syntheses: The Synthon Approach. ISBN 978-0-471-99612-5. 978-0-471-99612-5 ↩

11. Warren, Stuart (1982). Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (1st ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-10161-1. 978-0-471-10161-1 ↩

12. Warren, Stuart; Wyatt, Paul (2008). Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-71236-8. 978-0-470-71236-8 ↩

13. Warren, Stuart; Wyatt, Paul (2007). Organic Synthesis: Strategy and Control (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-92963-5. 978-0-471-92963-5 ↩

14. Clayden, Jonathan; Greeves, Nick; Warren, Stuart; Wothers, Peter (2001). Organic Chemistry (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850346-0. 978-0-19-850346-0 ↩

15. "The Sceptical Chymist: The Nature Chemistry blog. Reactions - Stuart Warren". http://blogs.nature.com/thescepticalchymist/2009/11/reactions_stuart_warren.html ↩