Peter Sykes (chemist)

Peter Sykes, FRSC (19 February 1923 – 24 October 2003 ) was a British chemist and a former fellow 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. A textbook on mechanistic organic chemistry, it is used all over the world for different competitive examinations.