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A Second Edition Organic Chemistry Textbook

On occasion I step off the industrial hamster wheel for a few minutes to have a look around. In Linkedin this morning I saw a post for the 2nd edition of Organic Chemistry by Jonathan Clayden (Author), Nick Greeves (Author), Stuart Warren (Author), Oxford University Press, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199270293. From inside the hole along the creek where I spend my free time, I was never aware that Warren had an O-chem textbook.

Amazon allows you to examine a bit of content on-line. If you teach O-chem, this text is worth a look in my estimation.

Many of us are familiar with Warren from his book Organic Synthesis: The Disconnection Approach, 1st edition 1982. A second edition was released in 2008. Retrosynthesis was spreading around to the far-flung corners of the chemistry polygon then. Warren’s book was quite useful in demonstrating that technique for devising an organic synthesis.

An interesting interview of Warren can be found at The Skeptical Chymist from 2009. Warren died in 2021 at age 81.