# Oxford Chemistry Primers

The Oxford Chemistry Primers are a series of short texts providing accounts of a range of essential topics in chemistry and chemical engineering written for undergraduate study. The first primer Organic Synthesis: The Roles of Boron and Silicon was published by Oxford University Press in 1991. As of 2017 there are 100 titles in the series, written by a wide range of authors. The editors are Steve G. Davies (Organic Chemistry), Richard G. Compton (Physical Chemistry), John Evans (Inorganic Chemistry) and Lynn Gladden (Chemical Engineering).

## Titles

| # | Title | Author(s) | Date Published |
| 1 | Organic Synthesis: The roles of boron and silicon | Susan E. Thomas | 24 October 1991 |
| 2 | Aromatic Heterocyclic Chemistry | David T. Davies | 13 February 1992 |
| 3 | Organometallic Reagents in Synthesis | Paul R. Jenkins | 23 April 1992 |
| 4 | Aromatic Chemistry | Malcolm Sainsbury | 27 August 1992 |
| 5 | Polar Rearrangements | Laurence M. Harwood | 13 February 1992 |
| 6 | Oxidation and Reduction in Organic Synthesis | Timothy J. Donohoe | 3 August 2000 |
| 7 | Amino Acid and Peptide Synthesis (2nd edition) | John Jones | 16 May 2002 |
| 8 | Reactive Intermediates | Christopher J. Moody and Gordon H. Whitham | 16 July 1992 |
| 9 | Foundations of Organic Chemistry | Michael Hornby and Josephine Peach | 8 April 1993 |
| 10 | The Mechanisms of Reactions at Transition Metal Sites | Richard A. Henderson | 2 December 1993 |
| 11 | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry | Hugh M. Cartwright | 9 December 1993 |
| 12 | Organometallics 1: Complexes with Transition Metal-Carbon s-Bonds | Manfred Bochmann | 17 March 1994 |
| 13 | Organometallics 2: Complexes with Transition Metal-Carbon p-Bonds | Manfred Bochmann | 17 March 1994 |
| 14 | Cluster Molecules of the p-Block Elements | Catherine E. Housecroft | 1 May 1994 |
| 15 | Chemical Bonding (2nd edition) | Mark J. Winter | 21 April 2016 |
| 16 | Periodicity and the p-Block Elements | Nicholas C. Norman | 15 May 1997 |
| 17 | Bifunctional Compounds | Robert S. Ward | 17 March 1994 |
| 18 | Oscillations, Waves, and Chaos in Chemical Kinetics | Stephen K. Scott | 4 August 1994 |
| 19 | Atomic Spectra | T. P. Softley | 25 August 1994 |
| 20 | Chemical Aspects of Biosynthesis | John Mann | 29 December 1994 |
| 21 | Modern Liquid Phase Kinetics | B. G. Cox | 2 June 1994 |
| 22 | Fractals in Chemistry | Andrew Harrison | 27 Apr 1995 |
| 23 | Inorganic Materials Chemistry | Mark T. Weller | 19 January 1995 |
| 24 | Chemical Instrumentation | Richard P. Wayne | 22 September 1994 |
| 25 | Biocoordination Chemistry | David E. Fenton | 26 October 1995 |
| 26 | Energy Levels in Atoms and Molecules | W. G. Richards and P. R. Scott | 29 December 1994 |
| 27 | d-Block Chemistry (2nd edition) | Mark J. Winter | 4 June 2015 |
| 28 | Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 1 | D. M. P. Mingos | 25 May 1995 |
| 29 | Computational Chemistry | Guy H. Grant and W. Graham Richards | 30 March 1995 |
| 30 | Process Development: Fine Chemicals from Grams to Kilograms | Stan Lee and Graham Robinson | 20 July 1995 |
| 31 | Organic Synthesis | Christine L. Willis and Martin Wills | 13 July 1995 |
| 32 | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (2nd edition) | Peter Hore | 28 May 2015 |
| 33 | Organosulfur Chemistry | Gordon H. Whitham | 13 Jul 1995 |
| 34 | Electrode Dynamics | A. C. Fisher | 11 July 1996 |
| 35 | Functional Groups: Characteristics and Interconversions | G. D. Meakins | 11 July 1996 |
| 36 | Stereoelectronic Effects | A. J. Kirby | 9 May 1996 |
| 37 | Introduction to Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure | P. A. Cox | 25 January 1996 |
| 38 | Organonitrogen Chemistry | Patrick D. Bailey and Keith M. Morgan | 18 April 1996 |
| 39 | Photochemistry | Carol E. Wayne and Richard P. Wayne | 9 May 1996 |
| 40 | Foundations of Physical Chemistry | Charles Lawrence | 1 Jul 1996 |
| 41 | Electrode Potentials | Richard G. Compton and Giles H. W. Sanders | 30 May 1996 |
| 42 | Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer | P. B. Whalley | 16 May 1996 |
| 43 | Introduction to Organic Spectroscopy | Laurence M. Harwood and Timothy D.W. Claridge | 24 October 1996 |
| 44 | Metal-Metal Bonded Carbonyl Dimers and Clusters | Catherine E. Housecroft | 1 August 1996 |
| 45 | Mechanisms of Organic Reactions | Howard Maskill | 8 August 1996 |
| 46 | Inorganic Chemistry in Biology | Patricia C. Wilkins and Ralph G. Wilkins | 9 January 1997 |
| 47 | Core Carbonyl Chemistry | John Jones | 28 August 1997 |
| 48 | Quantum Mechanics 1: Foundations | N. J. B. Green | 11 September 1997 |
| 49 | Chemical Reaction Engineering | Ian S. Metcalfe | 28 August 1997 |
| 50 | Heat Transfer | R. H. S. Winterton | 17 July 1997 |
| 51 | Periodicity and the s- and p-Block Elements (2nd edition) | Nicholas C. Norman | 01 February 2021 |
| 52 | Chemical Sensors | Robert W. Cattrall | 11 Sep 1997 |
| 53 | The Basis and Applications of Heterogeneous Catalysis | Michael Bowker | 26 February 1998 |
| 54 | Alicyclic Chemistry | Martin Grossel | 2 October 1997 |
| 55 | Molecular Spectroscopy | John M. Brown | 23 July 1998 |
| 56 | Thermodynamics of Chemical Processes (2nd edition) | Gareth Price | 28 March 2019 |
| 57 | Aquatic Environmental Chemistry | Alan G. Howard | 23 July 1998 |
| 58 | Statistical Thermodynamics (2nd edition) | Andrew Maczek | 8 June 2017 |
| 59 | Surfaces | Gary Attard and Colin Barnes | 11 June 1998 |
| 60 | X-Ray Crystallography (2nd edition, previously Crystal Structure Determination) | William Clegg | 21 May 2015 |
| 61 | Reaction Dynamics | M. Brouard | 25 June 1998 |
| 62 | Inorganic Spectroscopic Methods | Alan K. Brisdon | 18 June 1998 |
| 63 | Stereoselectivity in Organic Synthesis | Garry Procter | 23 April 1998 |
| 64 | Electroanalysis | Christopher M. A. Brett and Ana Maria Oliveira Brett | 15 October 1998 |
| 65 | Quantum Mechanics 2: The Toolkit | Nicholas Green | 29 October 1998 |
| 66 | Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry 2 | D. M. P. Mingos | 10 September 1998 |
| 67 | Pericyclic Reactions (2nd edition) | Ian Fleming | 2 April 2015 |
| 68 | Foundations of Physical Chemistry: Worked Examples | Nathan Lawrence, Jay Wadhawan and Richard Compton | 28 January 1999 |
| 69 | Non-aqueous Solvents | John Chipperfield | 4 March 1999 |
| 70 | Sonochemistry | Timothy J. Mason | 25 November 1999 |
| 71 | Chemistry of the First-row Transition Metals | Jon McCleverty | 28 January 1999 |
| 72 | Coordination Chemistry of Macrocyclic Compounds | Edwin C. Constable | 28 January 1999 |
| 73 | The Heavier d-Block Metals: Aspects of Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry | Catherine E. Housefcroft | 4 February 1999 |
| 74 | Supramolecular Chemistry | Paul D. Beer, Philip Gale and David Smith | 8 April 1999 |
| 75 | Magnetochemistry | A. F. Orchard | 13 March 2003 |
| 76 | The f Elements | Nikolas Kaltsoyannis and Peter Scott | 8 July 1999 |
| 77 | Foundations of Science Mathematics (2nd edition) | Devinder Sivia, Joanna Rhodes, and Steve Rawlings | 12 November 2020 |
| 78 | Foundations of Molecular Structure Determination (2nd edition, previously Foundations of Spectroscopy) | Simon Duckett | 7 May 2015 |
| 79 | Process Development: Physicochemical Concepts | John H. Atherton and Keith Carpenter | 20 January 2000 |
| 80 | Aqueous Acid-base Equilibria and Titrations | Robert de Levie | 4 November 1999 |
| 81 | Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry | Howard Maskill | 14 October 1999 |
| 82 | Foundations of Science Mathematics: Worked Problems | D. S. Sivia and S. G. Rawlings | 14 October 1999 |
| 83 | NMR Spectroscopy in Inorganic Chemistry (2nd edition) | Jonathan A. Iggo, Konstantin Luzyanin | 30 April 2020 |
| 84 | Computers in Chemistry | Pete Biggs | 6 January 2000 |
| 85 | Polymers | David J. Walton and Phillip Lorimer | 18 May 2000 |
| 86 | From Molecules to Crystallizers | Roger J. Davey and John Garside | 11 May 2000 |
| 87 | Foundations of Organic Chemistry: Worked Examples | Michael Hornby and Josephine Peach | 23 November 2000 |
| 88 | Organic Stereochemistry | Michael J. T. Robinson | 16 March 2000 |
| 89 | Radiation Heat Transfer | H. R. N. Jones | 29 June 2000 |
| 90 | Top Drugs: Top Synthetic Routes | John Saunders | 18 May 2000 |
| 91 | Radical Chemistry: The Fundamentals | M. John Perkins | 11 May 2000 |
| 92 | NMR: The Toolkit - How Pulse Sequences Work (2nd edition, previously NMR: The Toolkit) | Peter Hore, Jonathan A. Jones and Stephen Wimperis | 21 May 2015 |
| 93 | Foundations of Physics for Chemists | G. A. D. Ritchie and Devinder Sivia | 17 August 2000 |
| 94 | Foundations of Inorganic Chemistry | Mark J. Winter and John Andrew | 23 November 2000 |
| 95 | Protecting Group Chemistry | Jeremy Robertson | 3 August 2000 |
| 96 | Applied Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis | Robin Whyman | 5 July 2001 |
| 97 | Introduction to Molecular Symmetry | J. S. Ogden | 26 July 2001 |
| 98 | Foundations of Chemical Biology | C. M. Dobson, J. A. Gerrard and A. J. Pratt | 20 September 2001 |
| 99 | Carbohydrate Chemistry | B. G. Davis and Antony J. Fairbanks | 6 June 2002 |
| 100 | Electron Paramagnetic Resonance | Victor Chechik, Emma Carter and Damien Murphy | 14 July 2016 |
| 101 | Computational Chemistry | Jeremy Harvey | 8 March 2018 |
| 102 | Electrochemistry | Wesley R. Browne | 19 December 2018 |
| 103 | Mass Spectrometry | James McCullagh and Neil Oldham | 18 June 2019 |
| 104 | f-Block Chemistry | Helen C. Aspinall | 29 May 2020 |
| 105 | Supramolecular Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications | Paul Beer, Timothy Barendt, and Jason Lim | 01 September 2021 |