Stuart Warren


Stuart Warren was a British organic chemist and author of chemistry textbooks aimed at university students. Warren died in 2020.

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. 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.

The Warren group

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