Chemical Principles for Organic Chemistry

About Robert BoikessRobert S. Boikess

Robert S. Boikess is a Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers University where he served as department chair for nine years. He received his PhD at Columbia under the direction of Ronald Breslow and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Saul Winstein at UCLA. He is the author or co-author of three editions of CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES a General Chemistry text with accompanying lab manual and other supplements; four editions of HOW TO SOLVE GENERAL CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS; ELEMENTS OF CHEMISTRY GENERAL ORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL; and CHEMISTRY FOR BIOLOGISTS. He has been teaching large mainstream General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry courses for more than 50 years.