The Oxford Chemistry Primers are a series of short texts providing accounts of a range of essential topics in chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

 and chemical engineering

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

 written for undergraduate study. The first primer 'Organic Synthesis: The Roles of Boron and Silicon' was published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...

 in 1991. As of 2010 there are 92 titles in print, written by a wide range of authors. The editors are Steve G. Davies

Stephen G. Davies

Stephen Graham "Steve" Davies is a British chemist and the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford.- Career :...

 (Organic Chemistry), Richard G. Compton

Richard G. Compton

Richard Guy Compton is a physical chemist working at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University in England. He is Physical Chemistry editor of the Oxford University Press' chemistry primer series, which has over a hundred titles to date , and also a Fellow of the Royal...

(Physical Chemistry), John Evans (Inorganic Chemistry) and L.F. Gladden (Chemical Engineering) .