Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / George Porter
  • A Reminiscence or Two on Professor Sir Derek Barton, Nobel Laureate / Anthony G. M. Barrett
  • Inventing Radical Chain Reactions with Derek Barton at the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles / David Crich
  • Derek Barton as "Hidden Advisor" / Ernest L. Eliel
  • Derek H. R. Barton
  • The Lighter Side / Gilbert Stork
  • My Impressions of Derek / Koji Nakanishi
  • Some Memories of My Forty-five year Association with Derek Barton / Harry H. Wasserman
  • A Memoir: Two Years with Derek Barton at Imperial College (1971-1973) / Robert N. Young
  • Some Personal Recollections of Sir Derek Barton FRS
  • A Gentleman, A Scholar, and A Very Human Being / William B. Motherwell
  • Professor D. H. R. Barton, My Spiritual Mentor / Sho Ito
  • Some Recollections of My Association with Sir Derek Barton / Ashit K. Ganguly
  • My Friend
  • Derek / Raymond U. Lemieux
  • Some Recollections from a Japanese Student at Imperial College in the Early 1960s / Takuichi Miki
  • Some Chemistry with Sir Derek / Philip Magnus
  • Sir Derek Barton's 80th Birthday / K. C. Nicolaou
  • All Along / Jean-Marie Lehn
  • Sir Derek H. R. Barton
  • An Exceptional Scientist and Extraordinary Person / Gerhard Bringmann
  • Fifty Years with Sir Derek Barton / Marc Julia
  • Remembrance of the Barton Laboratory in the Fifties / Jacques Levisalles
  • Mon Ami Derek / Par Jean Mathieu
  • Sir Derek Barton and Free Radical Chemistry: A Testimony / Francesco Minisci
  • Derek Barton
  • The Half-a-Century Chemist / Guy Ourisson
  • Basking in the Shadow of a Great Chemist: Happy Times with Sir Derek Barton / Samir Z. Zard
  • D. H. R. B.
  • Some Recollections / Gerhard Quinkert
  • Epilogue: Bye-Bye Derek! / Pierre Potier.