Peter Sykes (chemist)

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Peter Sykes FRSC (born February 19, 1923 , † October 24, 2003 ) was a British chemist ( organic chemistry ).

Sykes received his PhD in 1947 from Alexander Todd at Cambridge University . He was a Fellow of Christ's College at Cambridge University and its Vice Masters.

He is known for a widely used introductory textbook on organic reaction mechanisms.

Fonts

  • A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry . Longmans 1961, 6th edition, Pearson
    • German edition: reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry. An introduction. Wiley-VCH, 9th edition 1988 (Ed. Henning Hopf , first 1964), and then as: How do organic reactions work? Response mechanisms for beginners. Wiley-VCH 1996, 2nd edition 2001
  • The search for organic reaction pathways . London: Longman 1972

literature

  • Obituary in The Times, Jan. 21, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Peter Sykes at academictree.org, accessed on January 1, 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Sykes, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British chemist (organic chemistry)
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1923
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2003