Why write a textbook? Answers are offered in this retrospective account of the life of <i>Basic Principles of Organic Chemistry</i> by Roberts and Caserio, first published by W. A. Benjamin, Inc., in 1964. The focus is on: why, how, by whom, for whom, success and failures, encompassing its life, death, and resurrection.

Basic organic textbook: From its beginning to its (digital) end

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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