Peter Sykes (chemist)

Peter Sykes, FRSC (19 February 1923 – 24 October 2003^[1]) was a British chemist and a former fellow^[2] and vice-master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

He is the author of the undergraduate-level organic chemistry textbook A Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry.^[3] A textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry, it is used all over the world for different competitive examinations.^{[citation needed]}