Designing Organic Syntheses

Stuart Warren completed his PhD at Cambridge in 1963 after which he spent a year as Research Fellow at Harvard with Professor Westheimer. He has been a Lecturer at Cambridge since 1970. His research interests lie in organophosphorus chemistry and the mechanism of rearrangement reactions.

• What Do You Need to Know Before You Start? How to Use the Programme. Why Bother with Disconnections? Glossary. Introduction to Disconnections. One-Group Disconnections. Two-Group Disconnections. ``Illogical'' Two-Group Disconnections. General Review Problems. Pericyclic Reactions. Heteroatoms and Heterocyclic Compounds. Special methods for Small Rings: 3- and 4-membered Rings. General Review Problems. Strategy. Further Study. Revision Problems. Problems in Strategy. Problems with Several Published Solutions.